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Test 6 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

A classmate keeps asking why your parents live apart. What can you honestly do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, parents, you · What happens: keep, ask, live, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A classmate keeps asking why your parents live apart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 classmate	det
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 live	advmod
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	nsubj
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	ccomp
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 live	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a classmate						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	a classmate not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	present	your parents					apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 can you honestly do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	you					honestly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Pretend you did not hear him ask anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not hear	past · do-support	you	him = he					tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	him = he not said here	anything					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Invent a story about it so that he stops asking you questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Invent	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 story	nmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 stops	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Invent	advcl
10	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stops	xcomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asking	obj
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	imperative	you not said here	a story				about story	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result
2	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	he not said here	questions	you				tree rules

Option 3

Tell him absolutely everything to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	4 everything	advmod
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 polite	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 polite	cop
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	everything	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					polite property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say you would rather not talk about it

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	6 talk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talk	obl

#	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	not talk	would	you					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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