Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: say, not tell · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nightingale	det
4	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the Nightingale						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support	the Nightingale not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=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 · ← Mova's choice

So no one else would hear of her visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 visits	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 visits	nmod:poss
9	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	no one					of her visits	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of visit=Stimulus
2	visit		her = she						nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

So nobody else would learn of her visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 learn	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 learn	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 nobody	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 visits	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visits	nmod:poss
8	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	nobody					of her visits	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of visit=Topic
2	visit		her = she						nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So nobody else would know about her visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 know	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 nobody	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 visits	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visits	nmod:poss
8	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	nobody					about her visits	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about visit=Stimulus
2	visit		her = she						nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

So nobody else would know about her visits, because the Court would have punished her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 know	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 nobody	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 visits	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visits	nmod:poss
8	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 punished	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 punished	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Court	det
12	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 punished	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 punished	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 punished	aux
15	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 know	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 punished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	would	nobody		about her visits	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about visit=Stimulus
2	punish	would · perfect	the Court	her = she		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	visit		her = she			nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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