Test 9 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…

Hang on, why would the Prince not just dump the other girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: hang on, not dump · To what, where: other girl

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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	_	10 dump	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dump	advmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dump	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dump	nsubj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dump	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 dump	advmod
10	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hang	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dump	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not dump	would	the Prince		the other girl				vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent girl=Destination

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 King had forced him to keep his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forced	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	aux
4	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forced	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 word	nmod:poss
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	force	past · perfect · passive		the King	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	word		King		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he had promised her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	aux
3	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	he		her = she				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

he had already married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 married	advmod
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

he had forgotten her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgotten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgotten	aux
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgotten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	he	her = she					tree rules

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