Exam question 4 · Promises to family

State the principal consequence of the habitual keeping of small promises.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: habitual · What happens: keep

This is exam question 4 of lesson 358 «Promises to family» of the everyday 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 consequence	amod
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 habitual	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 habitual	det
7	habitual	habitual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 habitual	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 promises	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 promises	amod
11	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keeping	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund	the habitual not said here					of small promises	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The person comes to be excused from keeping larger promises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 excused	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 excused	aux:pass
6	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comes	advcl
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 keeping	mark
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 excused	advcl
9	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 promises	amod
10	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	the person		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	excuse	to-infinitive · passive	the person not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	keep	gerund	the person not said here	larger promises	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

Option 2

No consequence follows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 consequence	det
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follows	nsubj
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	no consequence						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Others come to trust the person's word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 trust	mark
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 person	case
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	Others		tree rules
2	trust	to-infinitive	Others not said here	the person's word	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	word		the person		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Promises cease to be necessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cease	nsubj
2	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 necessary	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 necessary	cop
5	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cease	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present	Promises						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	Promises not said here					necessary property	tree rules

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