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title: What broke Hassebu's promise? — Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hasse… · tree and pragmatics
description: What broke Hassebu's promise? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

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What broke Hassebu's promise?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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/1796-pg641-part47/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1796-pg641-part47:t8:1
# text = What broke Hassebu's promise?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  | Hassebu's promise |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient |
| 2 | **promise** |  | Hassebu |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 crowds at the baths who pushed him in and made him forget

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1796-pg641-part47:t8:o1:1
# text = The crowds at the baths who pushed him in and made him forget
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | the crowds | him *= he* |  | the baths |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme at bath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | past | the crowds *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A scorching afternoon sun that made the baths steam like an oven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1796-pg641-part47:t8:o2:1
# text = A scorching afternoon sun that made the baths steam like an oven
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	scorching	scorch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | a scorching afternoon sun | the baths steam |  |  |  | like a oven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steam=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A fight at the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1796-pg641-part47:t8:o3:1
# text = A fight at the market
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A heat so roasting he forgot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1796-pg641-part47:t8:o4:1
# text = A heat so roasting he forgot
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | gerund | a heat *not said here* | heat |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | past | a heat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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