Test 8 · Keeping promises

Oscar can't think of a promise he kept when it was hard. What would the vicar likely suggest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oscar, promise, vicar · What happens: not think, keep, be, suggest · To what, where: promise

This is test 8 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: Oscar can't think of a promise he kept when it was hard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 promise	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 hard	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hard	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	can	Oscar		of a promise	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	Oscar	a promise not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	is	past	a promise not said here		hard property	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 would the vicar likely suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 suggest	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 suggest	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vicar	det
4	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggest	nsubj
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 suggest	advmod
6	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	would	the vicar					likely property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Promise something really huge to make up for it all at once

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	really	really	ADV	_	4 huge	advmod
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Promise	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 make	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obl
10	all	all	ADV	_	6 make	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 all	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here	something					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	make up	to-infinitive	you not said here					for it; all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Copy someone else's story for Sunday school and say it's yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 story	nmod:poss
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod
4	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 school	case
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 school	compound
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Copy	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 yours	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 yours	cop
13	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	someone's story	for Sunday school	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	story	yours		tree rules

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

Start with a small promise this week and keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 promise	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 promise	amod
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here				week	with a small promise	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with promise=Subeventuality
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	promise					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Never make any promises at all, so you can never break one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 make	advmod
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 promises	det
4	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 break	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 break	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 break	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 break	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 break	advmod
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	imperative	you not said here	any promises		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product
2	not break	can	you	one					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient

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