Test 10 · ★ · Promises to family

Why might Alfie stop believing Oliver's promises?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alfie, Oliver · What happens: stop, believe, promise · To what, where: promises

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 358 «Promises to family» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stop	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promises	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Oliver	case
8	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	might	Alfie		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	believe	gerund	Alfie not said here	Oliver's promises	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Stimulus
3	promise		Oliver		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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

Promises are too long to remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remember	mark
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Promises					long property	tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive	Promises not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Little children can't understand what a promise is at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 understand	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 understand	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 promise	det
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 what	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	can	Little children						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	a promise			all			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Broken promises make people stop trusting your word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 promises	amod
2	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 word	nmod:poss
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trusting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	Broken promises	people	tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	people not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	trust	gerund	people not said here	your word	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	word		your		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Alfie is too young to trust anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 young	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 trust	mark
6	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 young	advcl
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alfie					young property	tree rules
2	trust	to-infinitive	Alfie not said here	anyone					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme

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