Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

bet, why did he swear all those people to secrecy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: swear · To what, where: people

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swear	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 swear	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swear	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swear	nsubj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bet	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	det:predet
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swear	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 secrecy	case
11	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	he	all people				to secrecy	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality

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 keep it all quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		it				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to keep the money coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the money					tree rules
2	come	gerund	the money not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

for cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 cash	case
2	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

for profit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 profit	case
2	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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