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Test 2 · ★★★ · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret

Big sister, telling a story: "and then he fell in the pond, well, a puddle, ok I'm making it funnier." What does she know?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big sister, he, she · What happens: tell, fall, make, know · To what, where: story, puddle, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» of the adult life 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: Big sister, telling a story: "and then he fell in the pond, well, a puddle, ok I'm making it funnier."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sister	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 fell	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sister	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pond	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 puddle	punct
17	well	well	INTJ	_	20 puddle	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 puddle	det
20	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 making	punct
22	ok	ok	INTJ	_	25 making	discourse
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 making	nsubj
24	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 making	aux
25	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fell	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 making	obj
27	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 making	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Big sister not said here	a story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	fall in a quote	past	he	a puddle		the pond	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location
3	make in a quote	present · progressive	Big sister = sister	story				funny property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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 does she know?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 know	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Funnier stories are always truer stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stories	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stories	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 truer	advmod
5	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Funnier stories	truer stories					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Changing a story to make it funnier makes it untrue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Changing	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		a story					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive		story				funny property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	make	present	Changing	story				untrue property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

You should never tell funny stories at all, to anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anybody	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 anybody	case
11	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	should	You	funny stories	anybody	all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to anybody=Recipient

Option 4

A puddle and a pond are the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puddle	det
2	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pond	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puddle	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a puddle and a pond	the same thing					tree rules

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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