Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

Yo, what did the cook say about the duck?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cook · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 duck	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the cook					about the duck	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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'd spared no pains to stuff herself with the best grain in the whole palace kitchen.

The tree, 17 words

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	3 spared	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	aux
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pains	det
5	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spared	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stuff	mark
7	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spared	advcl
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stuff	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 grain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grain	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 grain	amod
12	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kitchen	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kitchen	amod
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kitchen	compound
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past · perfect	She	no pains					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
2	stuff	to-infinitive	She not said here	herself = she		the whole palace kitchen		with the best grain	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination with grain=Theme

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

She'd spared no pains to stuff herself.

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	3 spared	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	aux
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pains	det
5	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spared	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stuff	mark
7	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spared	advcl
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stuff	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past · perfect	She	no pains					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
2	stuff	to-infinitive	She not said here	herself = she					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

Option 3

She'd spared no effort to cook it.

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	3 spared	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	aux
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 effort	det
5	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spared	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cook	mark
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 effort	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cook	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past · perfect	She	no effort					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent effort=Asset
2	cook	to-infinitive	She not said here	effort					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

She'd spared no pains to stuff herself, so the duck was ready for the King's table.

The tree, 18 words

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	3 spared	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	aux
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pains	det
5	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spared	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stuff	mark
7	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spared	advcl
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stuff	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 ready	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duck	det
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ready	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spared	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 table	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 King	case
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ready	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spare	past · perfect	She	no pains		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
2	stuff	to-infinitive	She not said here	herself = she		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	is	past	the duck		for the King's table; ready property	tree rules

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