Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

what's the big deal with the monkey at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: big deal · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 monkey	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the big deal with the monkey at the end						tree rules

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

it made him promise to follow it wherever it went, no matter how far

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 follow	obj
8	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 matter	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he	no matter obl; far property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	it		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	go	past	it		wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it made him swear to obey it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 obey	mark
6	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swear	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he	tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	obey	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	it	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it made him promise to follow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	it	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

it stole his hat and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hat	nmod:poss
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	it	his hat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hat=Theme
2	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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