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title: so who snitched on the king's plan? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who snitched on the king's plan? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…

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so who snitched on the king's plan?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/771-pg2591-part47/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:771-pg2591-part47:t4:1
# text = so who snitched on the king's plan?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	snitched	snitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the manikin, he told the soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:771-pg2591-part47:t4:o1:1
# text = the manikin, he told the soldier
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the manikin, he told the soldier everything about the plan at the inn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:771-pg2591-part47:t4:o2:1
# text = the manikin, he told the soldier everything about the plan at the inn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the princess, she told him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:771-pg2591-part47:t4:o3:1
# text = the princess, she told him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the little black manikin, who quietly told the soldier all about it later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:771-pg2591-part47:t4:o4:1
# text = the little black manikin, who quietly told the soldier all about it later
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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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