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title: Dude, what did Old Eric promise? — Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did Old Eric promise? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

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Dude, what did Old Eric promise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Old Eric promise

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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/1633-pg5615-part22/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t9:1
# text = Dude, what did Old Eric promise?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude | Old Eric promise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To bring the fish up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t9:o1:1
# text = To bring the fish up
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | to-infinitive |  | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To bring the fish up and flood the porch for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t9:o2:1
# text = To bring the fish up and flood the porch for everyone
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flood	flood	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | to-infinitive |  | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 2 | **flood** | infinitive |  | the porch |  |  |  | for everyone | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porch=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To bring all the fish up to the squire's courtyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t9:o3:1
# text = To bring all the fish up to the squire's courtyard
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | to-infinitive |  | all fish |  |  |  | to the squire's courtyard | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To pay the squire back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:t9:o4:1
# text = To pay the squire back
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | to-infinitive |  | the squire |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squire=Asset |

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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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