Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is…

Did Rosimond tell his mum about any of it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: tell · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1894 «Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is cast out, gets a magic ring, and spies on the wicked King» 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 tell	aux
2	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 any	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 tell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 any	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Rosimond		Rosimond's mum			about any	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient about any=Topic

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

Yeah, he sent her gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave her money and told her everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 everything	nmod:poss
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	her money					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	he not said here	everything					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, he wrote her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrote	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he		her = she				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he only told his dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		his dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient

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