Test 6 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

you sold the bike you'd promised your sister. she's crying. what's fair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: sell, promise, cry, be · To what, where: bike, sister

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bike	det
4	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 promised	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	aux
7	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bike	acl:relcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	iobj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crying	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crying	aux
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sold	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fair	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 fair	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fair	cop
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sold	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sell	past	you	the bike			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	would	you	the bike not said here	your sister		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	cry speech: express	present · progressive	she				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				fair property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Give her the money and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the money	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say she can have your next bike instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bike	nmod:poss
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bike	amod
7	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	can	she	your next bike				instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Say she's too little for a bike anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 little	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 little	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bike	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bike	det
8	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 little	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					for a bike; little property	tree rules

Option 4

Keep the money, it was your bike after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bike	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bike	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bike	cop
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bike	nmod:poss
8	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the money			after all		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	is a	past	money	your bike					tree rules

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