Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

did he tell the mistress about the feathers, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: tell · To what, where: mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mistress	det
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feathers	det
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mistress	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	he		the mistress				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient about feather=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 · ← Mova's choice

yes, he told her all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 her	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no way, he kept quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	no way				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

no way, he kept quiet and never spoke of them again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 spoke	advmod
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	no way				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not speak speech: other	past	he not said here				again	of them = they	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yes, he told the mistress everything about the feathers at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	7 everything	det
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everything	compound
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feathers	det
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 everything	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	everything				about the feathers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient about feather=Topic

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