Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

did he keep his promise to stop robbing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, his · What happens: keep, stop, rob, promise · To what, where: promise

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	advcl
8	robbing	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	he	his promise	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	rob	gerund	he not said here		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	promise		his = he		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

nope, he robbed once more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 robbed	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 robbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	he					once property	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he robbed a bit more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 robbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl:unmarked
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	he	more					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he never robbed again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 robbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 robbed	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 robbed	advmod
5	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 robbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rob	past	he				again		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he never robbed again, not even once in his whole life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 robbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 robbed	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 robbed	advmod
5	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 robbed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 once	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 once	advmod
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 robbed	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 once	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rob	past	he				again	once property	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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