Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

lowkey the princess really promised a frog her stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: promise · To what, where: stuff, frog

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promised	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 frog	det
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stuff	nmod:poss
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	lowkey	princess's stuff	a frog				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent frog=Goal stuff=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

nah, she said she'd never do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	would	she	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said she'd do whatever he asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 do	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	she	whatever	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	past	he		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, she said she'd pay him gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	obj
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would	she		him = he				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Asset

Option 4

nah, she kept her ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ball	nmod:poss
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	her ball					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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