Test 10 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

broke the lamp, mums gonna kill me lol, should i just hide it

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mums, i · What happens: break, kill, hide · To what, where: lamp, me

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct
5	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	nsubj
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 kill	dep
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 broke	parataxis
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 kill	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hide	punct
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hide	aux
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hide	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 hide	advmod
14	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 broke	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	past		the lamp	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Patient
2	kill	infinitive	mums	me	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	hide	should	i	lamp	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Hide it, she may never notice it's gone from the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 notice	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 notice	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 notice	advmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hide	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 notice	ccomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelf	det
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not notice	may	she			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	present · passive	it		the shelf	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location

Option 2

Glue it and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glue	glue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Glue	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Glue	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	imperative	you not said here	it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

Blame the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

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

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

Own up early, it makes the trouble smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Own	compound:prt
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Own	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trouble	det
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	imperative	you not said here					early property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	make	present	it	the trouble				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material trouble=Product

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