Test 1 · School councils and class reps

"just promise free Maccies every day, it's got mad rizz, everyone'll vote for ya" — what is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, everyone, best reply · What happens: promise, get, vote, be · To what, where: free Maccies, mad rizz · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» of the politics 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 promise	advmod
3	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Maccies	amod
5	Maccies	maccy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 promise	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promise	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 promise	parataxis
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rizz	amod
13	rizz	rizz	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vote	punct
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 vote	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 vote	aux
17	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ya	case
19	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vote	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 promise	ccomp
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reply	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 reply	amod
26	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	imperative	you not said here	free Maccies	day		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent maccy=Theme
2	get in a quote	present · passive	it	mad rizz			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rizz=Stimulus
3	vote in a quote	future	everyone			for ya goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for ya=Goal
4	is a	present	the best reply				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 · ← Mova's choice

Promise even more food to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Promise	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Promise	advcl

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

Option 2

Great idea, big promises always work, and nobody checks them after the vote

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promises	punct
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 promises	amod
5	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 work	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 checks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 checks	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 checks	nsubj
11	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 work	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 checks	obj
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 vote	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vote	det
15	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 checks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Great idea					always property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	check	present	nobody	promises = promise			after the vote		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only promise what you can really try to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 promise	advmod
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 try	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 try	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 try	advmod
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	can	you	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Promises don't matter after you win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promises	promise	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
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 win	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 win	nsubj
7	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Promises						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	win	present	you						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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