Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…

Ugh, what did the Princess make everyone promise in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, everyone · What happens: do, make, promise · To what, where: everyone, part

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 make	obj
9	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 part	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 part	det
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	make	present	the Princess	everyone		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	infinitive	everyone not said here		this part	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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

That the Troll's heads were not real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 real	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Troll	det
3	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heads	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Troll	case
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 That	obj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 real	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	That					real property	tree rules

Option 2

Silence about the Troll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 Troll	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Troll	det
4	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Silence	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

That Ritter Red had lied about the fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Red	nsubj
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Red	compound
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lied	aux
5	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 fight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · perfect	Ritter Red					about the fight	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about fight=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That Ritter Red would be lying about saving her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lying	nsubj
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lying	nsubj
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ritter	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 saving	mark
8	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lying	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	would · progressive	That						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	save	gerund	That not said here	Ritter					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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