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Test 1 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

A girl in Texas tells her class her uncle is a famous astronaut, which is not true, because she wants friends. What would help her most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, uncle, famous astronaut · What happens: tell, be, not be, want, help · To what, where: class, famous astronaut, friends, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 195 «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Texas tells her class her uncle is a famous astronaut, which is not true, because she wants friends.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 class	nmod:poss
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 astronaut	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 astronaut	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 astronaut	det
12	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 astronaut	amod
13	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 true	advmod
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 astronaut	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wants	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 wants	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wants	nsubj
22	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	advcl
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wants	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a girl in Texas	girl's class					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient
2	is a	present	girl's uncle	a famous astronaut					tree rules
3	not is	present	a famous astronaut					true property	tree rules
4	want	present	girl	friends					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=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 would help her most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			girl				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

Making her story even more exciting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 story	nmod:poss
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 exciting	advmod
6	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Making	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		her story				exciting property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Learning that people can like her as she really is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 is	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learning	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 she	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obl
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 is	advmod
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	can	people	her = she				as she	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
3	be	present	Learning						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Asking the whole class to promise to believe everything she says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 says	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 promise	mark
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 believe	mark
8	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	xcomp
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 believe	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 everything	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the whole class					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole class not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	believe not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole class not said here	everything					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	Asking						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Never talking to anyone at school again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 talking	advmod
2	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 talking	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talking	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 talking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	gerund				school	again	to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=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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