Test 6 · ★ · pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hides under his bed an…

was rosald's promise thing chill or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: promise thing chill

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1221 «pg3282, Geirald and Rosald: Geirald hides under his bed and Rosald wins the queen» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chill	cop
2	rosald	rosald	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chill	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 rosald	case
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chill	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chill	compound
6	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 chill	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		rosald's promise thing chill					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

he always kept his promise

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	3 kept	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his promise				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	promise		his = he						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he kept his word at any cost

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 word	nmod:poss
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 cost	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cost	det
7	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his word		any cost			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent word=Theme at cost=Location
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yes, he kept every promise he made no matter what it cost him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 promise	det
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	acl:relcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 cost	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cost	nsubj
13	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cost	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he	every promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	make	past	he	no matter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Product
3	cost	past	matter	every promise	him = he	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary what=Value

Option 4

he was a man of honour

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	4 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 honour	case
6	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a man				of honour	tree rules

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