Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

what did the husband do when the wife kept nagging, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: do, keep, nag

This is test 10 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	nagging	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruh	punct
12	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	10 nagging	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the husband	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	the wife	tree rules
4	nag	gerund	the wife not said here	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=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

he said he'd die if he told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 die	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	would	he	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he said he'd be dead by morning if he ever told her why he laughed

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 morning	case
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 laughed	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laughed	nsubj
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he			dead property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	he	her = she	ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	laugh	past	he				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he said he'd be dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

he claimed he'd die then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 claimed	ccomp
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 die	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	would	he				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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