Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…

so who snitched on the king's plan?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: snitch, plan · To what, where: plan

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 771 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 snitched	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 snitched	nsubj
3	snitched	snitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 plan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snitched	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 snitched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snitch speech: other	past				the king's plan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plan		the king						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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

the manikin, he told the soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 manikin	det
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 manikin	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the manikin		the soldier				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient

Option 2

the manikin, he told the soldier everything about the plan at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 manikin	det
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 manikin	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 everything	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 everything	compound
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 told	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 plan	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plan	det
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 everything	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 inn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 inn	det
14	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the manikin	everything		the inn		about the plan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient about plan=Topic

Option 3

the princess, she told him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 princess	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the little black manikin, who quietly told the soldier all about it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manikin	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manikin	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manikin	amod
4	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 manikin	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 told	nsubj
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 manikin	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 it	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	obl
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the little black manikin		the soldier			about soldier; late, quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient about it=Topic

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