Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

What did the old man tell him to grab?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: tell, grab · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grab	mark
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the old man		him = he				tree rules
2	grab not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Her cloak and run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cloak	nmod:poss
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 cloak	cc
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	present	Her cloak					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her hair and never let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 hair	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	infinitive	Her hair						tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Her hair not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Her hair, seize it firmly and never let go, even when she begs you

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seize	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hair	punct
4	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seize	obj
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	4 seize	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seize	conj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begs	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 begs	advmod
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 begs	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begs	nsubj
15	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seize	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 begs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize	infinitive	Her hair	it		firmly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not let	infinitive	Her hair not said here				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Her hair not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	present	hair		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Option 4

Her hair and never let go, whatever she says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hair	conj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 says	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	infinitive	Her hair not said here		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Her hair not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Her hair	whatever	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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