Test 9 · Vows, oaths and promises in faith

Lucy asks, "How do Grandma and Grandad keep a promise for fifty years?" What would they likely say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucy, Grandma · What happens: ask, do, keep, say · To what, where: Grandma, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 88 «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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: Lucy asks, "How do Grandma and Grandad keep a promise for fifty years?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
5	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	advcl
7	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Grandad	cc
9	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Grandma	conj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 promise	det
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 promise	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Lucy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	present		Grandma and Grandad		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Eventuality
3	keep in a quote	present		a promise	for fifty years	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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 they likely say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They wrote it down once on their wedding day and then forgot it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 wrote	compound:prt
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 wrote	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forgot	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 forgot	advmod
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	They	it			day	once property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	forget	past	They not said here	it			then		tree rules

Option 2

Promises keep themselves automatically once you are married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 keep	obj
4	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 married	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 married	aux:pass
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Promises	Promises = promise				automatically property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	marry	present · passive		you					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

One day at a time, with honesty and lots of forgiveness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honesty	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 honesty	case
8	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lots	cc
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 honesty	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 forgiveness	case
12	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lots	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

They never had a single argument in all those fifty years together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 argument	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 argument	amod
6	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det:predet
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 years	det
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
12	together	together	ADV	_	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	They	a single argument			year	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient

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