Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

Did the mirror ever tell a porky?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: porky · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mirror	det
3	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 porky	det
7	porky	porky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support		a porky			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it always said the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	the truth				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

Option 2

Nah, it was a fib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fib	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fib	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fib	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fib	det
6	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a fib					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it told the Queen a massive fib about Snowdrop once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fib	det
8	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fib	amod
9	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 Snowdrop	case
11	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fib	nmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	it	a massive fib	the Queen			about Snowdrop; once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient fib=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, it lied a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lied	nsubj
4	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lied	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	it	a bit					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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