Test 6 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

so did the queen actually promise her daughter to him?

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

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 promise	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 promise	advmod
6	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	iobj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 promise	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support			her daughter			to him = he goal; actually property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Goal

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

nope, she promised him a lot of cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obl:unmarked
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cake	case
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she	a lot of cake	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she promised to marry her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 marry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry off not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she promised to send a poem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 poem	det
8	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	a poem					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

Option 4

nah, she just gave him gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	gold	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Theme

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