Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…

Ya, the ducks talking about a swallowed ring, is that real or extra?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ducks, Ya · What happens: talk, swallow, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 760 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the false brides and the white dove's song» 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	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 real	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ducks	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ya	appos
5	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ducks	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 ring	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ring	det
8	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ring	amod
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ya	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 real	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 real	mark
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 extra	cc
15	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 real	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund	the ducks not said here	about a swallowed ring	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ring=Topic
2	swallow	participle			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Ya	real property	tree rules
4	be		Ya not said here		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

it's extra, but the duck said so, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 extra	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 extra	cop
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duck	det
7	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 extra	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extra	parataxis

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the duck said it, so it's real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 real	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 real	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the duck	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	duck					real property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the duck said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the duck	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

it's real, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					bro vocative; real property	tree rules

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