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Test 7 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

promised to be kind to the new boy, then everyone laughed at him and you joined in. Best move now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, you · What happens: promise, be, laugh, join in

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: promised to be kind to the new boy, then everyone laughed at him and you joined in.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 kind	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 promised	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laughed	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 laughed	advmod
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 laughed	nsubj
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 promised	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 joined	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 joined	nsubj
17	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 joined	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						to the new boy; kind property	tree rules
3	laugh	past	everyone				then	at boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	join in	past	you						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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: Best move now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 move	amod
2	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 move	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Avoid him so it's not awkward at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Avoid	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 awkward	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 awkward	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 awkward	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 awkward	advmod
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Avoid	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awkward	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
2	not is	present	it			school		awkward property	tree rules

Option 2

Join in the laughing again so you fit in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Join	Join	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 fit	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fit	det
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 the	acl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 laughing	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 fit	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fit	nsubj
8	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Join	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 fit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund					again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fit in	present	you						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

Say sorry to him and play with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorry	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 play	cc
6	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	play	infinitive	you not said here					with him = he	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

Option 4

Say you were only laughing at the joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 laughing	advmod
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Say	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 joke	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughing	obl

#	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	laugh	past · progressive	you			the joke			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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