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Test 2 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie

Tom hid a broken vase and now has to invent a cat, a storm and an open window to explain it. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, this · What happens: hide, break, have, invent, explain, show · To what, where: broken vase, cat, vase

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Tom hid a broken vase and now has to invent a cat, a storm and an open window to explain it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vase	det
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 vase	amod
5	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 has	advmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 invent	mark
10	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 has	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invent	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 storm	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 storm	det
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cat	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 window	cc
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 window	det
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 window	amod
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cat	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 explain	mark
21	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 invent	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 explain	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Tom	a broken vase					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Patient
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	Tom not said here				now		tree rules
4	invent	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	a cat and a storm and a open window					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Result
5	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	vase					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: What does this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Small lies never grow into bigger ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lies	amod
2	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 ones	case
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	Small lies					into bigger ones result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result

Option 2

Lies are easy to keep going for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 easy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	xcomp
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lies					easy property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	Lies not said here						tree rules
3	go	gerund	Lies not said here				time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One lie often needs more lies to cover it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lie	nummod
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 needs	advmod
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 lies	amod
6	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cover	mark
8	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	One lie	more lies				often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme
2	cover	to-infinitive	One lie not said here	lie					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 4

The cat is the one who should own up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 own	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 own	aux
8	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 own	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cat	the one					tree rules
2	own up	should	the one						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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