Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

Bruv, what did Curdken rat out to the king?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do out · To what, where: Curdken rat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rat	compound
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do out	past		Curdken rat				to the king; Bruv vocative; out property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Eventuality

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 girl ignored the old king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ignored	nsubj
3	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	the girl	the old king					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the girl chats to the head of a talking horse and tells it secrets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chats	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	compound
3	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tells	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	compound
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tells	cc
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tells	obj
14	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the girl chats to the head of a talking horse	secrets	horse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient secret=Topic

Option 3

the girl chats to a horse head nailed on the dark gate each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chats	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	compound
3	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nailed	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 head	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	nmod
8	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nailed	obl
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nailed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nail	participle	the girl chats to a horse head				morning	on the dark gate	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on gate=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the girl chats to a horse head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chats	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	compound
3	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 head	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chats	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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