Test 6 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

what was the big ask Julia made him promise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Julia, him · What happens: be, ask, make, promise · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 big	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	conj
6	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			big property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past	Julia	him = he		tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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

never to visit the river again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 visit	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 visit	mark
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not visit	to-infinitive		the river			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

never to swim in those pools again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 swim	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 swim	mark
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pools	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pools	det
6	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	to-infinitive				that pools	again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

never to swim in those pools again, no matter how hot it got in summer or who asked him

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 swim	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 swim	mark
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pools	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pools	det
6	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 swim	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hot	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hot	nsubj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hot	advmod
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swim	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hot	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 summer	case
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 got	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not swim	to-infinitive			that pools	again	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
2	get	past	matter			summer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	ask speech: ask	past		him = he			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

to promise he would stop going to the forest and the river and every other dark water in the land forever

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 promise	mark
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	ccomp
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 river	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 water	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 water	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 land	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 land	det
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obl
21	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 promise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive		the land	forever property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	would	he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	go	gerund	he not said here	the forest and the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location

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