Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

No cap, what did the fishes do once they got freed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, free · To what, where: fishes, cap

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 freed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fishes	det
7	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 freed	aux
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 freed	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 freed	nsubj:pass
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 freed	aux:pass
12	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 freed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the fishes					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality
2	free	present · passive · do-support		no cap					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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

They promised to pay him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pay	mark
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pay	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	They						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They promised to repay him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 repay	mark
4	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 repay	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	They						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	repay not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here		him = he				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

They swam away and promised to repay him whenever he needed help in the future.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 swam	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 promised	cc
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swam	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 repay	mark
7	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promised	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 repay	obj
9	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 needed	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 needed	nsubj
11	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 repay	advcl
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 future	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 future	det
15	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim away	past	They				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	They not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	repay not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here		him = he			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	need	past	he	help		the future	whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They promised to repay him one day with a great reward of gold and silver from the lake.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 repay	mark
4	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 repay	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	obl:unmarked
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 reward	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 reward	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reward	amod
11	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reward	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 silver	cc
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reward	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 lake	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lake	det
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	They						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	repay not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here		him = he	the lake	day	with a great reward of gold and silver	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with reward=Theme
3	reward			gold					nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient

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