Test 15 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

why do ppl even lie

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ppl · What happens: lie

This is test 15 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
3	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	5 lie	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
5	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · do-support	ppl						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Only bad people lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 bad	advmod
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lie	nsubj
4	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	bad people						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

People lie to make others happy every single time, never for themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lie	advcl
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 themselves	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 themselves	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	People					for People	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive	People not said here	others			time	happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset other=Product

Option 3

Because lying is always good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 good	mark
2	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lying					always, good property	tree rules

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

Often to avoid trouble or look good, but it usually backfires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Often	often	ADV	_	3 avoid	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 avoid	mark
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoid	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 avoid	conj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 backfires	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 backfires	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 backfires	nsubj
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 backfires	advmod
12	backfires	backfire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 avoid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive		trouble	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location
2	look	infinitive			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	backfire	present	trouble		usually property	tree rules

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