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title: What undertaking did Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo? — Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What undertaking did Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo? Exam question 2 of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 2 · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

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What undertaking did Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** undertake, do · **To what, where:** solemn request require

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1216-pg3282-part17/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:e2:1
# text = What undertaking did Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	require	require	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | Julia's solemn request require of Alonzo |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Obedience to the old priest's wishes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:e2:o1:1
# text = Obedience to the old priest's wishes
1	Obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** |  | the old priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Abstention from bathing in those pools and from walking near the river after sunset each night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:e2:o2:1
# text = Abstention from bathing in those pools and from walking near the river after sunset each night
1	Abstention	abstention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the river | night; sunset |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Trajectory |

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

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Abstention from bathing in those pools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:e2:o3:1
# text = Abstention from bathing in those pools
1	Abstention	abstention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Refusal to visit the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:e2:o4:1
# text = Refusal to visit the village
1	Refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | the village |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent |

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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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