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title: What's Walter promising Jonas if he comes, the skin or the tail? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's Walter promising Jonas if he comes, the skin or the tail? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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What's Walter promising Jonas if he comes, the skin or the tail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Walter · **What happens:** promise, come · **To what, where:** Jonas, skin

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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/1287-pg3454-part12/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t10:1
# text = What's Walter promising Jonas if he comes, the skin or the tail?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Jonas	Jona	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · progressive | Walter |  | Jonas |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal jona=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Walter | the skin or the tail |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t10:o1:1
# text = The tail
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t10:o2:1
# text = Tail
1	Tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t10:o3:1
# text = Fur
1	Fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t10:o4:1
# text = The skin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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