Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

What did the raven promise, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: raven promise

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 promise	det
4	raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 promise	amod
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lowkey	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the raven promise and lowkey					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality

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

He'd pay Charming back someday with a gold ring and a bunch of flowers from the palace

The tree, 18 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	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
6	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ring	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ring	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ring	compound
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bunch	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bunch	det
13	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ring	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bunch	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	would	He		Charming	the palace		with a gold ring and a bunch of flowers	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent charming=Recipient someday=Asset

Option 2

He'd pay Charming back someday, no cap, when he needed it most

The tree, 13 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	3 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
6	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someday	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 needed	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 needed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needed	nsubj
13	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needed	obj
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	would	He		Charming			most obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent charming=Recipient someday=Asset
2	need	past	Charming	someday					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd pay Charming back someday

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 pay	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
6	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	would	He		Charming				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent charming=Recipient someday=Asset

Option 4

He'd return the favour later

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 return	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 return	aux
3	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 favour	det
5	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 return	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	would	He	the favour				late property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme

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