Test 6 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

My brother promised to help me and then went off with his mates, "it's just a stupid promise, chill". What does the rainbow story teach?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, it · What happens: promise, help, go off, be, do · To what, where: me, stupid promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 3 «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics 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: My brother promised to help me and then went off with his mates, "it's just a stupid promise, chill".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mates	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mates	nmod:poss
13	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 promise	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 promise	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	21 promise	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 promise	det
20	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 promise	amod
21	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chill	punct
23	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 promise	appos
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 chill	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	My brother					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	My brother not said here		me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	go off	past	My brother not said here			then	with brother's mates	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	it	a stupid promise				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: What does the rainbow story teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teach	det
4	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teach	compound
6	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Promises don't matter if you change your mind or something better comes up

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 change	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 change	nsubj
7	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 comes	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 something	cc
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 mind	conj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 something	amod
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Promises		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	change a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your mind	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	come up	present			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mind		your		nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only God has to keep promises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	xcomp
6	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	God						tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	God not said here	promises					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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

A promise is a serious thing, as God's promise is kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 kept	mark
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 promise	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 God	case
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a promise	a serious thing	tree rules
2	keep	present · passive	a serious thing not said here	God's promise	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	promise		God		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

A promise only counts if it is written down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 counts	advmod
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 written	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 written	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 written	aux:pass
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 counts	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 written	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	a promise						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	write down a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		promise					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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