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Test 12 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

Coach: "Stop fudging the figures — you didn't run 10 laps, you ran 6." What did the runner do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Coach, you, runner · What happens: stop, fudge, not run, run, do · To what, where: figures, 10 laps, 6

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 29 «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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: Coach: "Stop fudging the figures — you didn't run 10 laps, you ran 6."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Stop	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct
4	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fudging	fudge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Stop	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figures	det
7	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fudging	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 run	advmod
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Stop	conj
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 laps	nummod
14	laps	lap	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	parataxis
18	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 ran	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive	Coach						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fudge in a quote	gerund	Coach not said here	the figures					tree rules
3	not run in a quote	past · do-support	you	10 laps					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lap=Trajectory
4	run in a quote	past	you	6					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 6=Trajectory

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 did the runner do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 runner	det
4	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the runner						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ran extra laps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	ran	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laps	amod
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laps	amod
3	laps	lap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ate fudge while running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fudge	fudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 running	mark
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		fudge					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fudge=Patient
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Counted perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	1 Counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	participle						perfectly property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gave false numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 numbers	amod
3	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		false numbers					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

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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