Test 10 · ★ · Promises

kid said promise ur not friends with Ella or else

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: say, promise · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 199 «Promises» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 friends	advmod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 promise	iobj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Ella	case
8	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promise	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 else	cc
10	else	else	ADV	_	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive			ur's friends			with Ella	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent friend=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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That promise doesn't count; tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 count	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 count	advmod
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 count	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	that promise						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	that promise not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Ask Ella to promise too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 promise	mark
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 promise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Ella				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ella=Recipient clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You must keep it now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	You	it			now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Promise and stop seeing Ella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stop	cc
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Promise	conj
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stop	infinitive	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	see	gerund	you not said here	Ella	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ella=Stimulus

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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