Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out…

Yo, so Curdken was a total snitch, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Curdken · What happens: be · To what, where: total snitch

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 99 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl: the secret comes out and the false bride is punished» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 snitch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 snitch	advmod
4	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 snitch	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 snitch	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snitch	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snitch	amod
8	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snitch	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 snitch	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 snitch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Curdken	a total snitch					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

He reported the girl's secret to the king.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reported	nsubj
2	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reported	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reported	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reported	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	past	He	the girl's secret	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to king=Recipient

Option 2

He kept quiet and never told the king anything the girl did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 anything	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	compound
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 told	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He		quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	anything		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient
3	do	past	the girl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He told the king everything the girl did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 everything	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everything	compound
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 told	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He	everything					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
2	do	past	the girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He told the king about the girl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 girl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

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

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