Test 17 · ★ · Promises

apparently Ella made Grace pinky promise not to be friends with anyone else, n now Grace is crying, spread it

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, Grace · What happens: make, not be, cry, spread · To what, where: Grace pinky promise, friends, promise

This is test 17 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	compound
5	pinky	pinky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	compound
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 friends	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 friends	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 friends	cop
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 promise	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 friends	nmod
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 anyone	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
15	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	19 crying	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 crying	advmod
17	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 crying	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 crying	aux
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct
21	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Ella	Grace pinky promise		apparently property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
2	not is a	to-infinitive		friends		with anyone	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	present · progressive	Grace		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spread	infinitive	Ella not said here	promise			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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

Spread it so everyone knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 knows	advmod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	know	present	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Make Ella pinky promise too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promise	compound
3	pinky	pinky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promise	compound
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	Ella pinky promise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product

Option 3

Grace must keep the promise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't spread it; a promise controlling your friends doesn't count, tell an adult

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 count	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 count	nsubj
8	controlling	control	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 promise	acl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 controlling	obj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 count	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 count	advmod
13	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 count	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 adult	det
17	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	control	gerund	a promise not said here	your friends		vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
3	not count	present · do-support	a promise			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a promise not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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