Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

Did the learned man promise to keep the secret?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: learned man · What happens: learn, promise, keep · To what, where: secret

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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	5 promise	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nsubj
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 secret	det
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the learned man		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the learned man not said here	the secret	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

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

Yes, he swore an oath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 oath	det
6	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	obj

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

Option 2

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he gave his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	his word					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

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

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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