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Test 7 · ★ · Promises

A girl forgot she had promised to feed her neighbour's cat. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: forget, promise, feed, do · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl forgot she had promised to feed her neighbour's cat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 promised	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promised	aux
6	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 forgot	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feed	mark
8	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promised	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neighbour	nmod:poss
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cat	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 neighbour	case
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	a girl						tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	girl						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here		girl's neighbour's cat				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient

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 should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Say the neighbour never asked her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the neighbour					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neighbour=Topic
2	not ask speech: ask	past	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Leave extra food tomorrow and not mention it to the neighbour at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mention	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mention	advmod
7	mention	mention	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mention	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 neighbour	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neighbour	det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mention	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mention	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	extra food			tomorrow		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	not mention speech: other	infinitive	you not said here	food	the neighbour	all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to neighbour=Recipient

Option 3

Hope the cat found some food by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hope	ccomp
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Hope	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present						by cat	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find	past	the cat	some food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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

Feed it now, tell the neighbour and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	obj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Feed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Feed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Feed	conj
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	it			now		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the neighbour					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient
3	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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