Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

did Peter promise Eisenkopf he'd never get hitched?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: promise, not hitch · To what, where: Eisenkopf, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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 promise	aux
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promise	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hitched	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hitched	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 hitched	advmod
8	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hitched	aux:pass
9	hitched	hitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 promise	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Peter		Eisenkopf				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent eisenkopf=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not hitch	would · passive		Peter					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

yeah, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

nope, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 nope	discourse

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

Option 3

yeah, never wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 wed	advmod
4	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wed	imperative	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, never marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 marry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 marry	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 marry	advmod
4	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	imperative	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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