Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

bruh, why didn't the boy spill the sword thing to his mum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: not spill · To what, where: sword thing

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 spill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 spill	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spill	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 spill	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spill	nsubj
8	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spill	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mum	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spill	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 spill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spill	past · do-support	the boy	the sword thing				to boy's mum	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme

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

cos she'd tell every single neighbour on the whole street about it before dinner tonight

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 neighbour	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neighbour	amod
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 street	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 street	amod
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 street	nmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
16	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	cos	every single neighbour		the whole street about street	before dinner; tonight		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient

Option 2

cause she talks to all neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talks	parataxis
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talks	nsubj
3	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 neighbours	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 neighbours	det
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	talk	present	she					to all neighbours	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Co-Agent

Option 3

cos she would tell the baker and the priest and the miller and everyone else in town

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baker	det
6	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 priest	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 priest	det
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 baker	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 miller	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 miller	det
12	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 baker	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 everyone	cc
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 baker	conj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 everyone	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 town	case
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	cos	the baker and the priest and the miller		town			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos she gossips with every neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gossips	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gossips	nsubj
3	gossips	gossip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 neighbour	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 neighbour	det
6	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gossips	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gossip speech: other	present	cos					with every neighbour	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with neighbour=Co-Agent

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