Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…

Did Heinel say a single word the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Heinel · What happens: say · To what, where: single word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Heinel	a single word			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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

Yeah, a few words at first, then he went dead quiet for ages, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 words	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 words	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 quiet	amod
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a few words	mate			for ages; then	quiet property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at first=Location for age=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, not one, he stayed dead quiet the whole time, no matter what

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stayed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quiet	amod
9	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	parataxis
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 stayed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	one			time		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quiet=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, not one, he stayed dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stayed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	one				dead, quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he whispered to the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 snake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	he		the snake				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to snake=Recipient

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