Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Dude, what was the elder's promise, like if things got bad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, things · What happens: be, get · To what, where: promise

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 promise	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elder	det
6	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 elder	case
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	conj
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the elder's promise					tree rules
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	things					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Call me three times and I'll come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		me		time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	come	future	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

If things get bad, call me three times and I'll come help you right away

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 get	mark
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	advcl
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 call	conj
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	right	right	ADV	_	17 away	advmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	13 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	things				bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	imperative	you not said here		me	time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	come	future	I	help			away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location help=Theme

Option 3

Call me twice and I will answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Call	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 answer	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 answer	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	aux
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		me			twice property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	future	I						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Call me three times if things go bad and I'll come running straight to you

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obl:unmarked
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Call	advcl
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	conj
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 come	xcomp
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 running	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	me	time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	things			bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	future	I				tree rules
4	run	gerund	I not said here	you		straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to you=Result

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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