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title: «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point». Best… — Promises to friends and to yourself · tree and pragmatics
description: «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point». Best answer? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

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«I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point». Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** promise, stop, lie, be · **To what, where:** point · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:1
# text = «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lied	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the point |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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There's no point, so give up promising anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:o1:1
# text = There's no point, so give up promising anything
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no point |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Each truth makes the next easier; keep trying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:o2:1
# text = Each truth makes the next easier; keep trying
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
9	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | each truth | the next |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | the next *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | the next *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Promise something easier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:o3:1
# text = Promise something easier
1	Promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lies don't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t8:o4:1
# text = Lies don't matter
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | Lies |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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**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.

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