Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

What did the porter have to promise to stay?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: porter · What happens: do, have, promise, stay

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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	4 porter	det
4	porter	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 promise	mark
7	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promise	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	have	present	the porter	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	the porter not said here	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the porter not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He promised to carry the basket and not ask anything at all

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	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 carry	mark
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ask	advmod
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	conj
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 ask	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the basket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
3	not ask speech: ask	infinitive	He not said here	anything	all	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient

Option 2

Just pay the fee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 pay	advmod
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fee	det
4	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	the fee					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset

Option 3

He had to swear on the holy book and pay a huge fee, dude

The tree, 14 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swear	mark
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swear	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pay	cc
10	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swear	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fee	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fee	amod
13	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dude	punct
15	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fee	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	He			tree rules
2	swear	to-infinitive	He not said here		the holy book	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pay	present	He not said here	a huge fee and dude		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No questions, got it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 questions	det
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 questions	punct
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	no questions	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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