Test 4 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

Did she send him a letter or just shout across the palace?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: send, shout · To what, where: letter, him, palace

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 send	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 shout	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 shout	advmod
9	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 send	conj
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shout	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	she	a letter	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination letter=Theme
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	she not said here			the palace			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

She shouted across the palace garden to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	compound
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	She		him = he	the palace garden			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

Option 2

She sent a messenger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 messenger	det
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	She	a messenger					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She sent a servant to tell him by word of mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 word	case
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	She	a servant			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	She not said here		him = he	by word of mouth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	word			mouth			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She wrote him a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	She	a letter	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Topic

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