Test 12 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

told u a million times!! is that a lie

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: u, lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lie	parataxis
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 told	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 million	det
4	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 told	obl:unmarked
6	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	1 told	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lie	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle			u		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present		a lie					tree rules

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

No, it's exaggeration and everyone knows it's not literal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 exaggeration	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exaggeration	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exaggeration	cop
5	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knows	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exaggeration	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 literal	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 literal	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 literal	advmod
12	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	exaggeration		tree rules
2	know	present	everyone	exaggeration not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer exaggeration=Stimulus
3	not is	present	exaggeration		literal property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it wasn't really a million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 million	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 million	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 million	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 million	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 million	det
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	it	a million					tree rules

Option 3

Only if you said it angrily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	you	it				angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Yes, any number that's wrong is a lie, even if you're just cross

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wrong	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	acl:relcl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cross	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	17 cross	advmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 cross	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 cross	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cross	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 cross	advmod
17	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	any number		wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	present	any number	a lie		tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		cross property	tree rules

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