Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Proper mad, did the sister get told off in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell off · To what, where: sister, end

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 mad	advmod
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 told	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		the sister			in the end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

Nah, she got let off with a warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	ccomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 let	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 warning	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 warning	det
9	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	let off	infinitive	she not said here					with a warning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the harp just snapped and stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 snapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harp	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snapped	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 snapped	advmod
6	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the harp						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	the harp not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Nah, she didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, she got sent to the dungeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dungeon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dungeon	det
8	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		she		the dungeon			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dungeon=Destination

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