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Test 6 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

"Oi, stop telling porkies! You never saw a shark in the canal." What is the speaker saying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: stop, tell, not see, say · To what, where: porkies, shark, canal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms 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: "Oi, stop telling porkies!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
2	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 stop	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oi	punct
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	porkies	porky	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	you not said here	porkies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient

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: You never saw a shark in the canal."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shark	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 canal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canal	det
8	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	You	a shark		the canal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What is the speaker saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the speaker						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Stop talking about pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 pigs	case
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	you not said here					about pigs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pig=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hush	hush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stop lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	lie	gerund	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stop eating pies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here	pies					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient

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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