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Test 8 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

«I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point». Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: promise, stop, lie, be · To what, where: point · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	ccomp
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lied	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lied	nsubj
10	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
11	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	10 lied	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 point	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 point	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 point	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lied	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	I						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop in a quote	would	I						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	lie in a quote	gerund	I not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie in a quote	past	I				again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		the point					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.

Sentence 2: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There's no point, so give up promising anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 point	det
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 's	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 give	advcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 promising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no point			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give up	infinitive							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	gerund		anything					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Each truth makes the next easier; keep trying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 next	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	obj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	each truth	the next				easy property	tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	the next not said here						tree rules
3	try	gerund	the next not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Promise something easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Promise	obj
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Promise	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here	something				easy property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 4

Lies don't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Lies						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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