Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…

did the First Calender's cousin make him swear loads of stuff before the big reveal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, him · What happens: make, swear · To what, where: him, loads

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender begins his tale» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cousin	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Calender	det
3	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 Calender	amod
4	Calender	Calender	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cousin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Calender	case
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 swear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 stuff	case
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loads	nmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 reveal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reveal	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reveal	amod
16	reveal	reveal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swear	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the First Calender's cousin	him = he					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here	loads of stuff			before the big reveal		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent load=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

nah, he only swore to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swore	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 swore	advmod
5	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 quiet	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 quiet	cop
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swore	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he made him swear to be faithful, keep it secret and never tell anyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 faithful	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 faithful	cop
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swear	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swear	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	him = he			tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	him = he not said here			faithful property	tree rules
4	keep	infinitive	him = he not said here	it		secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	he not said here		anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, faithful and keep it secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 faithful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 faithful	punct
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faithful	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive		it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

nah, he made him swear an oath of loyalty to the Caliph before the whole court

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oath	det
8	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swear	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 loyalty	case
10	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oath	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Caliph	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Caliph	det
13	Caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loyalty	nmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 court	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 court	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 court	amod
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	him = he					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here	a oath of loyalty to the Caliph			before the whole court		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality

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