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title: what's the youth promise, like for real? — Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the youth promise, like for real? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

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what's the youth promise, like for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** youth promise · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1196-pg3027-part62/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t12:1
# text = what's the youth promise, like for real?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the youth promise |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
heal the wound within some weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t12:o1:1
# text = heal the wound within some weeks
1	heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wound |  |  | week |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
make the slipper that fits the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t12:o2:1
# text = make the slipper that fits the king
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the slipper |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slipper=Product |
| 2 | **fit** | present | the slipper | the king |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cure the king in about a fortnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t12:o3:1
# text = cure the king in about a fortnight
1	cure	cure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | imperative | you *not said here* | the king |  |  | fortnight |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer king=Source |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
make a healing slipper and nurse the king back to full health over the coming season

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t12:o4:1
# text = make a healing slipper and nurse the king back to full health over the coming season
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	amod	_	_
16	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a healing slipper and nurse |  |  | season | to full health | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset slipper=Beneficiary king=Product |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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