--- title: keep promising to give back his game but forgot again — Promises · tree and pragmatics description: keep promising to give back his game but forgot again Test 14 · ★ of lesson 199 «Promises» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/199-promises/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/199-promises/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Promises keep promising to give back his game but forgot again **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep, promise, give back, forget · **To what, where:** game This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 199 «Promises» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/199-promises/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:199-promises:t14:1 # text = keep promising to give back his game but forgot again 1 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 promising promise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 back back ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | his game | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 4 | **forget** | past | you *not said here* | | | | again | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Say you lost it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:199-promises:t14:o1:1 # text = Say you lost it 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lose** | past | you | it | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} Promise again tomorrow, and this time say it more seriously ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:199-promises:t14:o2:1 # text = Promise again tomorrow, and this time say it more seriously 1 Promise promise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | again; tomorrow | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | it | | | time | seriously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ### Option 3 {#o3} Keep it, he'll forget ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:199-promises:t14:o3:1 # text = Keep it, he'll forget 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **forget** | future | he | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Give it back today, broken promises lose trust ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:199-promises:t14:o4:1 # text = Give it back today, broken promises lose trust 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 9 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give back** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | today | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | present | broken promises | trust | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality | **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. 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