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Test 8 · ★ · Promises to family

Mum: «You promised you'd stop teasing her and she's crying again». What's the honest reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, you, honest reply · What happens: promise, stop, tease, cry, be · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Mum: «You promised you'd stop teasing her and she's crying again».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct
4	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promised	nsubj
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promised	ccomp
9	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 teasing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crying	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crying	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crying	aux
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 promised	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 crying	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 crying	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	Mum						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop in a quote	would	you						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	tease in a quote	gerund	you not said here	Mum					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	cry speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	Mum				again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What's the honest reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honest reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

«It was only a joke»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 joke	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	It	a joke					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Sorry, I did it again. I'll keep trying»

Sentence 1: «Sorry, I did it again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
2	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sorry	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	I	it			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Sentence 2: I'll keep trying»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	future	I						tree rules
2	try	gerund	I not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

«She started it, she always starts it»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 starts	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 started	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 starts	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 starts	advmod
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 starts	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 starts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start in a quote	past	She	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	start in a quote	present	she	it				always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

«I never promised»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 promised	advmod
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not promise speech: promise in a quote	past	I						vn promise-37.13 «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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