Test 14 · ★ · Promises

keep promising to give back his game but forgot again

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: keep, promise, give back, forget · To what, where: game

This is test 14 · ★ 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	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 keep	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promising	xcomp
5	back	back	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 game	nmod:poss
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 forgot	cc
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 keep	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 forgot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	you not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give back not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	his game		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
4	forget	past	you not said here		again	tree rules

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

Say you lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past	you	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Promise again tomorrow, and this time say it more seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Promise	advmod
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promise	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl:unmarked
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Promise	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 seriously	advmod
11	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	8 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here				again; tomorrow		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	it			time	seriously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Keep it, he'll forget

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	forget	future	he						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Give it back today, broken promises lose trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lose	punct
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 promises	amod
7	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	nsubj
8	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	advcl
9	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	it	today	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	lose	present	broken promises	trust		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality

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