Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Gutted, the harp spilled the truth at the party, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: harp · What happens: gut, spill · To what, where: truth, party

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spilled	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harp	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	nsubj
5	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 party	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 truth	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spilled	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 spilled	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spilled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	the harp not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spill	past	the harp	the truth		the party			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location truth=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

Yeah, it told the king the sister did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	it	the king	the sister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient king=Topic
2	do	past		it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it just played

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	it						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it sang that her sister drowned her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 drowned	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drowned	nsubj
8	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drowned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drown	past	her sister	her = she					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

Nah, it sang about a sad old cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 cat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	it					about a sad old cat	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cat=Location

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