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Test 2 · ★★ · Being a good grown-up

Your mate promises to come to five parties on the same day. What's the problem?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, problem · What happens: promise, come, be · To what, where: five parties

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your mate promises to come to five parties on the same day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promises	nsubj
3	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promises	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 parties	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 parties	nummod
8	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	Your mate						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your mate not said here			five parties	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location

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.

Sentence 2: What's the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He should promise ten to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promise	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	aux
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 promise	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promise	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	should	He	ten					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ten=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Parties are never on the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 day	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 day	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Parties				on the same day		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, more promises means more friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promises	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 promises	amod
4	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 friends	amod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing	more friends					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's promising what he can't really do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promising	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promising	aux
3	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promising	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present · progressive	He						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	can	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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