Test 5 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

Why is it better to tell the family at once if you break their lamp?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, you · What happens: be, tell, break · To what, where: family, lamp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 better	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 tell	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 break	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 break	nsubj
13	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lamp	nmod:poss
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		good property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the family		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient
3	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	their lamp		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Patient

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

Because they will pay you for being honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 pay	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pay	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 honest	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 honest	cop
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	they	you					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset
2	is	gerund	they not said here					honest property	tree rules

Option 2

Because lamps can always be glued back together perfectly afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 glued	mark
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 glued	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 glued	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 glued	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 glued	aux:pass
6	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 glued	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 glued	advmod
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 glued	advmod
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 glued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue back	can · passive		lamps				afterwards, always, perfectly, together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hiding it is dishonest, and the family needs to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dishonest	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hiding	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dishonest	cop
4	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 needs	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dishonest	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 know	mark
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		it		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	Hiding		dishonest property	tree rules
3	need	present	the family			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the family not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Because then they cannot be cross at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 cross	mark
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cross	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cross	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cross	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cross	cop
7	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	they			all	then	cross property	tree rules

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