Test 4 · ★ · Folk Tales, Jack My Hedgehog and The Golden Lads: the hedg…

Bro, why did the gold fish tell the fisher to keep it quiet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gold fish · What happens: tell, keep · To what, where: fisher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1930 «Folk Tales, Jack My Hedgehog and The Golden Lads: the hedgehog hero's bride is cast off, his skin burns, and a golden fish brings a castle» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tell	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fisher	det
10	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the gold fish	the fisher					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisher=Recipient
2	keep	to-infinitive	the gold fish not said here	fisher				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos if he blabbed, it would all vanish, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 vanish	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 blabbed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blabbed	nsubj
4	blabbed	blab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vanish	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blabbed	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 vanish	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 vanish	aux
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 vanish	advmod
9	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mate	compound
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vanish	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blab speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	vanish	would	it					all property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cos it's a secret, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 secret	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 secret	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 secret	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 secret	det
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 secret	vocative
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 secret	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					cos a secret; mate vocative	tree rules

Option 3

Cos it'd all go poof, innit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 innit	advcl
6	poof	poof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	it	poof				all property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poof=Theme
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Cos the neighbours would get jealous, bruv.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 get	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bruv	compound
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the neighbours					jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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