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title: What did the father advise Peter concerning Eisenkopf's promise? — Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the father advise Peter concerning Eisenkopf's promise? Exam question 3 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

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What did the father advise Peter concerning Eisenkopf's promise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** father advise, Eisenkopf · **What happens:** do, concern, promise · **To what, where:** father advise, promise

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/705-pg2435-part45/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e3:1
# text = What did the father advise Peter concerning Eisenkopf's promise?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	advise	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the father advise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the father advise *not said here* | Eisenkopf's promise |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus promise=Experiencer |
| 3 | **promise** |  | Eisenkopf |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That promises of this kind are seldom kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e3:o1:1
# text = That promises of this kind are seldom kept
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | that promises of this kind |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** |  |  | this kind |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That promises are useless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e3:o2:1
# text = That promises are useless
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that promises |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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That nobody ever keeps promises made in haste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e3:o3:1
# text = That nobody ever keeps promises made in haste
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | nobody | promises |  |  | ever |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | promises *not said here* |  | haste |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That promises like that are often broken by men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e3:o4:1
# text = That promises like that are often broken by men
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive | men | that |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |

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