Test 2 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

Bruv, why did the princess stay quiet and not say nothing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: stay, not say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stay	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stay	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stay	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 say	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	the princess					Bruv vocative; quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	infinitive	the princess not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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 · ✓ the right answer

cos the coachman threatened to chuck her in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coachman	det
3	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threatened	nsubj
4	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chuck	mark
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threatened	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	threaten	past	the coachman			tree rules
3	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	the coachman not said here	coachman	the river	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cos the coachman threatened to chuck her in the river and tell everyone she was lying, bruv

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coachman	det
3	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threatened	nsubj
4	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chuck	mark
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threatened	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	conj
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 tell	iobj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lying	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tell	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	bruv			tree rules
2	threaten	past	the coachman				tree rules
3	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	the coachman not said here	coachman		the river	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
5	lie	past · progressive	coachman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos the coachman said he'd bin her in the river, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coachman	det
3	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bin	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bin	aux
7	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bin	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 river	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cos	infinitive				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the coachman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bin	would	coachman	her = she	the river and innit	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination

Option 4

cos the king said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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