Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Religion ethics / Keeping promises / t11

Test 11 · Keeping promises

The vicar asks, "Why is Ruth's promise beautiful?" What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vicar, promise, Ruth, best answer · What happens: ask, be, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 86 «Keeping promises» 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: The vicar asks, "Why is Ruth's promise beautiful?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vicar	det
2	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 beautiful	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 beautiful	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beautiful	cop
8	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promise	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ruth	case
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beautiful	nsubj
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asks	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 beautiful	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 beautiful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the vicar						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Ruth's promise					beautiful property	tree rules
3	promise in a quote		Ruth						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

She never had to give anything up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 give	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	She						tree rules
2	give up	to-infinitive	She not said here	anything					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was the only promise she ever made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 promise	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 promise	amod
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 made	advmod
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 promise	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the only promise					tree rules
2	make	participle	she	the only promise not said here			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She kept it when going home would have been easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 easier	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 easier	cop
10	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	She	it					tree rules
2	go	would						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive · perfect						easy property	tree rules

Option 4

She was paid a lot of money by Naomi's family to keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 family	case
9	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 family	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Naomi	case
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paid	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive	Naomi's family	She					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient lot=Asset
2	keep	to-infinitive	Naomi's family not said here	lot					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/t11/