Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

did the queen-mother tell anyone her plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: her · What happens: do, plan · To what, where: anyone

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 anyone	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	compound
6	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	compound
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 did	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 plan	nmod:poss
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		anyone					tree rules
2	plan		her = she						nom plan «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she kept it totally quiet from everyone, even her son the Prince, and the cook too

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quiet	nsubj
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 quiet	advmod
7	quiet	quiet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 quiet	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 son	advmod
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cook	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cook	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cook	det
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
20	too	too	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	the cook					tree rules
2	quiet	present	it			everyone		totally property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she kept it totally quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 quiet	advmod
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	it				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

yes, she told the king alone

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 told	advmod

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

Option 4

nah, she kept it totally quiet and told only the cook in the kitchen, who promised silence

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 quiet	advmod
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 cook	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promised	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 promised	nsubj
18	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kitchen	acl:relcl
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	it			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		the cook	the kitchen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient
3	promise speech: promise	past	the kitchen	silence				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent silence=Theme

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