Test 14 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

made up a story to sound cool, now everyone found out

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make up, sound, find out

This is test 14 · ★ 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	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 story	amod
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 made	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sound	mark
6	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 story	acl
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 everyone	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 everyone	advmod
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 story	conj
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 everyone	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 found	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	make up	participle		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	sound	to-infinitive	cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	find out	participle		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry and tell the truth, trust comes back slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
8	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	come back	present	trust		slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Blame someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Blame	obj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	someone					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 3

Make up an even bigger story so they forget the first one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Make	compound:prt
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 forget	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	nsubj
9	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	a bigger story					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
2	forget	present	they	the first one					tree rules

Option 4

Stop talking to them all

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	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talking	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked

#	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		them = they				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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