Exam question 3 · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

What did the father advise Peter concerning Eisenkopf's promise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father advise, Eisenkopf · What happens: do, concern, promise · To what, where: father advise, promise

This is exam question 3 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advise	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advise	compound
5	advise	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 advise	appos
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 advise	acl
8	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promise	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Eisenkopf	case
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the father advise	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	the father advise not said here	Eisenkopf's promise	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus promise=Experiencer
3	promise		Eisenkopf		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

That promises of this kind are seldom kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promises	det
2	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kind	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promises	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux:pass
7	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	8 kept	advmod
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		that promises of this kind				seldom property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	promise			this kind					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

That promises are useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promises	det
2	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 useless	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	cop
4	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that promises					useless property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That nobody ever keeps promises made in haste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 nobody	det
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 keeps	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeps	obj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 promises	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 haste	case
8	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	nobody	promises			ever		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	make	participle		promises not said here		haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

That promises like that are often broken by men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promises	nsubj
2	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 broken	mark
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 broken	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux:pass
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 broken	advmod
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 promises	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	That						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	present · passive	men	that				often property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient

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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