Test 8 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

how long did he keep the promise, for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep · To what, where: promise

This is test 8 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 keep	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	he	the promise				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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

three nights, and then he cracked, because the forest kept calling him every single evening

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cracked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cracked	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cracked	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cracked	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cracked	nsubj
7	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 kept	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cracked	conj
13	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kept	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 calling	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 evening	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 evening	amod
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calling	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	crack	past	three nights		then	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	the forest			tree rules
3	call	gerund	the forest not said here	forest	evening	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he kept it for a whole week before he finally cracked and went back to the forest pools again

The tree, 19 words

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 cracked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cracked	nsubj
10	finally	finally	ADV	_	11 cracked	advmod
11	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 pools	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pools	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pools	compound
18	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	13 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	crack	past	he			finally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	go back	past	he not said here		again	to the forest pools result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pool=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three nights, then he cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nights	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cracked	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	three nights				then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

four nights then he gave in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obl:unmarked
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gave	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in	past	he				then; night		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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