Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

test: Yo, what did Blanchette swear to her mum she'd never do again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blanchette · What happens: swear, not do · To what, where: test, mum

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Yo	punct
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swear	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 swear	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swear	aux
7	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 swear	nsubj
8	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 test	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mum	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swear	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mum	acl:relcl
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	Blanchette	test				to Blanchette's mum	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	not do	would	Blanchette	Blanchette's mum not said here			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=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 · ← Mova's choice

go into the woods alone when Mum says not to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 woods	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woods	det
4	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 go	obl
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 go	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 says	advmod
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 go	advcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 says	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	9 not	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the woods		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	present	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

listen to a Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Wolf	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
4	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					to a Wolf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wolf=Theme

Option 3

trust a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	imperative	you not said here	a stranger					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme

Option 4

listen to any wolf who talks to her in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 wolf	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 listen	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 talks	nsubj
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wolf	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talks	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here			the woods		to any wolf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wolf=Theme
2	talk	present	any wolf		her = she				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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