Test 13 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Oi, what did the General tell George to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: General · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: George · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the General	George	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent george=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the General not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

honour them in authority and keep to his station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 honour	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 authority	case
4	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 honour	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 honour	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 station	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 station	nmod:poss
9	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour	imperative	you not said here	them = they		authority			tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here					to his station	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

serve the Czar faithfully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Czar	det
3	Czar	Czar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 serve	obj
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	1 serve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	imperative	you not said here	the Czar				faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent czar=Attribute

Option 3

never speak to the porter's family again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speak	advmod
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 family	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porter	det
5	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 porter	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here				again	to the porter's family	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to family=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

honour them in authority

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 honour	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 authority	case
4	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 honour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour	imperative	you not said here	them = they		authority			tree rules

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