Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

deadass, what was the husband's dumb promise to the enchantress?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass · What happens: be · To what, where: dumb promise

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 121 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 promise	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 promise	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 husband	case
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 promise	amod
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 deadass	appos
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 enchantress	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enchantress	det
12	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	deadass	the husband's dumb promise				to the enchantress	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 · ← Mova's choice

to hand over his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hand	mark
2	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	2 hand	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	to-infinitive		his son					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

Option 2

a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gold	nmod:poss
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to give her the baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		the baby	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient baby=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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