Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, par…

Did she keep her promise when her mum wanted a chat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, mum, her · What happens: keep, want, promise · To what, where: promise, chat

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1418 «Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 5: the White Bear takes the youngest daughter home to her family, but she must keep 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chat	det
11	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	she	her promise	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	want	past	her mum	a chat	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chat=Theme
3	promise		her = she		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, she sat and chatted all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chatted	cc
6	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she				day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat speech: other	past	she not said here						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, she said it could wait, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	could	it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	innit	infinitive		tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she broke it and talked to her mum on her own for ages

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 talked	cc
7	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mum	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talked	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talked	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	she	it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
2	talk	past	she not said here			her own	for ages	to her mum	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mum=Co-Agent

Option 4

Nah, she told her mum everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	everything	her mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient everything=Topic

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