--- title: did grandpa promise him the guns? — Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, par… · tree and pragmatics description: did grandpa promise him the guns? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/852-pg27200-part63/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/852-pg27200-part63/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an… did grandpa promise him the guns? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grandpa · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** guns, him This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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/852-pg27200-part63/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t8:1 # text = did grandpa promise him the guns? 1 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | grandpa | the guns | him *= he* | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal gun=Theme | 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} no way ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t8:o1:1 # text = no way 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} yeah, once he's big and strong ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t8:o2:1 # text = yeah, once he's big and strong 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 once once SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | he | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | he *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} nope, never ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t8:o3:1 # text = nope, never 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} nah, not till he's grown up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t8:o4:1 # text = nah, not till he's grown up 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 4 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **grow up** | present · passive | | he | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | **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. 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