Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldier…

Wait, did the Dragon actually spill the answers to his gran?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Dragon · What happens: wait, spill · To what, where: answers

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spill	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spill	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dragon	det
5	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spill	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 spill	advmod
7	spill	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 answers	det
9	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spill	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 gran	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gran	nmod:poss
12	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spill	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spill	past · do-support	the Dragon	the answers				to Dragon's gran; actually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme

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

Yeah, he boasted about it at supper, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 boasted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boasted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boasted	nsubj
4	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boasted	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 supper	case
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boasted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	he			supper and innit		about it	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2

Nah, he kept it secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the soldier overheard him and told her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 overheard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overheard	nsubj
5	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 overheard	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overheard	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	past	the soldier	him = he					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the soldier not said here		soldier				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

No, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 never	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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