Test 16 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

lied to avoid trouble, now it's worse

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trouble · What happens: lie, avoid, be · To what, where: trouble

This is test 16 · ★ 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	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 avoid	mark
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lied	advcl
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoid	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worse	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 worse	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worse	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 worse	cop
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 lied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	avoid	to-infinitive		trouble			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location
3	is	present	trouble		now	bad property	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

Keep quiet forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					forever, quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Add another lie to cover it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 lie	det
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cover	mark
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Add	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	another lie					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient
2	cover	to-infinitive	you not said here	lie					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the truth now, the sooner the better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sooner	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sooner	det
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Tell	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 better	det
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sooner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth			now	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 4

Blame someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Blame	obj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod

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

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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