Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

right, what did he tell her to do with the men's savings?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, men · What happens: tell, do, save · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	right	right	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 savings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 savings	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 men	case
14	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	he	her = she		tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive			with the men's savings	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	save		the men			nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

give them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

spend them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 3

pay them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pay	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 pay	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay out	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

give them back to the men at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 give	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 give	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here		them = they			to the men	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to man=Recipient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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