Test 5 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Why'd the snake king make him swear?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake king, him · What happens: make, swear · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 king	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 king	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the snake king	him = he					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «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

To make him a proper servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a proper servant	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary servant=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So he wouldn't come back and do him in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	would	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

Option 3

So he'd keep the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	he	the gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4

Cos he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

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