Test 16 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

did u hear Kate's haircut, apparently her mum did it with garden shears lol, everyone's saying she looks awful

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, mum, everyone · What happens: hear, do, say, look · To what, where: haircut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 196 «White lies and kind silence» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 haircut	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kate	case
6	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
8	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	11 did	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 shears	case
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shears	compound
15	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	obl
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 hear	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 saying	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	aux
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	advcl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looks	nsubj
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	ccomp
23	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	Kate's haircut		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer haircut=Stimulus
2	do	past	Kate's mum	haircut	with garden shears; apparently property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	present	mum		awful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Spread it, it's only a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 joke	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't spread it; kind silence about looks is better than mean gossip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 silence	amod
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 better	nsubj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 looks	case
9	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 silence	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 spread	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 gossip	case
13	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gossip	amod
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	kind silence about looks					than mean gossip; good property	tree rules

Option 3

Tell Kate she looks awful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
5	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Kate				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kate=Recipient
2	look	present	Kate					awful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The garden shears part is surely true, so everyone ought to hear about it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shears	nsubj
3	shears	shear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
6	surely	surely	ADV	_	7 true	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shears	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 hear	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shears	advcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shear	present	the garden		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	part	surely, true property	tree rules
3	hear	ought	everyone	about part	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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