Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Religion ethics / Keeping promises / t7

Test 7 · Keeping promises

Arjun's friend says, "The cat's fine, probably, just keep quiet." What's wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: say, keep, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Arjun's friend says, "The cat's fine, probably, just keep quiet."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Arjun	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 cat	case
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fine	conj
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Arjun's friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	keep in a quote	infinitive	Arjun's friend not said here					probably, quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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's wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The neighbours may need to check, and admitting a slip keeps the trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 check	mark
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keeps	cc
9	admitting	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keeps	csubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slip	det
11	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 admitting	obj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trust	det
14	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	may	the neighbours						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	check not said to happen	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	admit speech: other	gerund		a slip					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme
4	keep	present	admitting	the trust					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme

Option 2

Nothing; cats can always look after themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	can	cats				after cats = cat	always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He should blame the neighbours for leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blame	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 blame	aux
3	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbours	det
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blame	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 blame	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	should	He	the neighbours					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme
2	leave	gerund	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It's fine as long as he doesn't forget twice

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	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 forget	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 long	advcl
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine, long property	tree rules
2	not forget	present · do-support	he					twice property	tree rules

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/t7/