Test 13 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

said i did my homework but i didn't, teacher believes me

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, teacher · What happens: say, do, not do, believe · To what, where: homework, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 said	ccomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 homework	nmod:poss
5	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 said	conj
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believes	punct
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 believes	nsubj
12	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 said	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 believes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	i	my homework	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality
3	not do	past	i		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	believe	present	teacher	me	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep lying, no one will ever know if u keep quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 keep	mark
10	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
11	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	lie	gerund	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	future	no one	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	u		quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the truth and catch up, the gap gets bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 catch	cc
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 catch	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gets	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gap	det
9	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gets	nsubj
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic
2	catch up	present				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	the gap		big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Say the dog ate it each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past	the dog	it			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Copy someone else's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Copy	obj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod
4	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	someone					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

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