Test 13 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

dont wanna go to his party, gotta make up an excuse right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dont · What happens: go, make up · To what, where: party, excuse

This is test 13 · ★ 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	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	3 go	nsubj
2	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	1 dont	flat:foreign
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 party	nmod:poss
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
8	gotta	gotta	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 make	compound:prt
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 excuse	det
12	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	right	right	ADV	_	9 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	dont			his party			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location
2	make up	infinitive	dont not said here	a excuse				right property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme excuse=Pivot

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

Say you'll come and then don't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	future	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not do	infinitive	you not said here	then	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, say your nan died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nan	nmod:poss
5	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	your nan						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, say you're ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, you can just say thanks, but I can't come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	you	thanks					tree rules
2	not come	can	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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