Test 8 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

What broke Hassebu's promise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hassebu · What happens: break, promise · To what, where: promise

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hassebu	case
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		Hassebu's promise					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
2	promise		Hassebu						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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

The crowds at the baths who pushed him in and made him forget

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crowds	det
2	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushed	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 baths	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baths	det
5	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushed	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pushed	nsubj
7	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pushed	obj
9	in	in	ADV	_	7 pushed	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pushed	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	push	past	the crowds	him = he	the baths	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme at bath=Trajectory
2	make	past	the crowds not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	forget	infinitive	him = he not said here			tree rules

Option 2

A scorching afternoon sun that made the baths steam like an oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sun	det
2	scorching	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sun	amod
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sun	compound
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sun	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steam	det
8	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 steam	compound
9	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 oven	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 oven	det
12	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	past	a scorching afternoon sun	the baths steam				like a oven	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steam=Product

Option 3

A fight at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fight	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A heat so roasting he forgot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgot	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 roasting	advmod
4	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heat	acl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roasting	obj
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	gerund	a heat not said here	heat					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	forget	past	a heat						tree rules

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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