Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be, engage · To what, where: betrothal

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 betrothal	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 betrothal	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 betrothal	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 betrothal	det
7	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Hang	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 it	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hang	obl
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 engaged	mark
13	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 engaged	aux:pass
14	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hang	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here		anyway property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		a betrothal		tree rules
3	is a	present		betrothal		tree rules
4	engage	gerund · passive	you not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»

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

Yeah, a promise to get married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 promise	det
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 married	mark
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 married	aux:pass
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 promise	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive · passive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it's a kind of fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fight	case
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a kind				of fight	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, a sort of royal banquet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 banquet	case
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 banquet	amod
7	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			royal banquet					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, a promise to get married, made in front of the whole court and the King

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 promise	det
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 married	mark
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 married	aux:pass
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 promise	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 promise	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 court	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 court	amod
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 King	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 court	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive · passive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
2	make	participle		a promise not said here		front of the whole court and the King			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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