Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind…

The garter's kinda shy, nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: garter · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 302 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind mother bargains with Death for her child, then a boastful collar starts to court a garter» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garter	det
2	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shy	cop
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 shy	advmod
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nah	punct
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 shy	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the garter					kinda, shy property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she says "I will thank you not to speak to me"

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thank	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thank	aux
8	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thank	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	future	I	you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	not speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	me	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yeah, she says "I will thank you not to speak to me, sir" and then the collar sulks

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thank	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thank	aux
8	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thank	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
16	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thank	vocative
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sulks	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sulks	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 collar	det
21	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sulks	nsubj
22	sulks	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	future	I	you		sir vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	not speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
4	sulk	present	the collar		then		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, she says "Please, do not ask me that"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct
6	Please	please	INTJ	_	10 ask	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Please	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ask	advmod
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ask	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 ask	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive · do-support			me				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, she says "I will thank you not to speak to me" and then goes quiet forever

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thank	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thank	aux
8	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thank	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thank	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 goes	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 goes	advmod
18	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 goes	xcomp
20	forever	forever	ADV	_	18 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	future	I	you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	not speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
4	go	present	she not said here		then	forever, quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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