Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

did grandpa promise him the guns?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandpa · What happens: promise · To what, where: guns, him

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promise	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guns	det
6	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 promise	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	grandpa	the guns	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal gun=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

no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, once he's big and strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 big	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strong	cc
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					big property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3

nope, never

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	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 nope	advmod

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

Option 4

nah, not till he's grown up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 grown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 grown	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 grown	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grown	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grown	aux:pass
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow up	present · passive		he					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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