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Test 7 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking…

"He embroidered the story a bit — there were two dogs, not twenty." What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: He, two dogs · What happens: embroider, be, do · To what, where: story

This is test 7 · ★ 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: "He embroidered the story a bit — there were two dogs, not twenty."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 embroidered	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embroidered	nsubj
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embroidered	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embroidered	obl:unmarked
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 were	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embroidered	conj
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dogs	nummod
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 twenty	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 twenty	advmod
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dogs	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embroidered	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 embroidered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider in a quote	past	He	the story				a bit obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Product
2	be in a quote	past	two dogs			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Forgot to mention the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 mention	mark
3	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Forgot	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mention	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past							tree rules
2	not mention speech: other	to-infinitive		the dogs					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

Option 2

Told the exact truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
3	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 truth	amod
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		the exact truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 3

Sewed a picture of dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sewed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 picture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past		a picture of dogs					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Added invented details to the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 details	amod
3	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Added	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Added	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	participle		invented details				to the story	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent detail=Patient to story=Co-Patient
2	invent	participle							vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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