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Test 1 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

A girl in Calgary told the teacher her friend pushed her, but it was not true, and now the friend has lost recess. What should she do now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: tell, push, not be, lose, do · To what, where: teacher, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» 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 girl in Calgary told the teacher her friend pushed her, but it was not true, and now the friend has lost recess.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Calgary	case
4	Calgary	Calgary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushed	nsubj
10	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pushed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 true	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 true	advmod
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pushed	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 recess	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 recess	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lost	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 friend	det
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 recess	amod
25	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a girl in Calgary		the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	push	past	girl's friend	girl				lost recess obl	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	not is	past	friend					true property	tree rules
4	lose	present · perfect	the friend				now		vn succeed-74-3-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What should she do now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 do	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	girl				now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing, since recess is only short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 short	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 short	mark
5	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 short	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 short	advmod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	is	present	recess					short property	tree rules

Option 2

Tell another story to make it less bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	another story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		story				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

Give the friend a sweet to make up for it and say nothing to the teacher

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sweet	det
5	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 make	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 say	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 teacher	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teacher	det
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a sweet	the friend				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient sweet=Theme
2	make up	to-infinitive	you not said here					for sweet	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing	the teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to teacher=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Go to the teacher and tell the truth straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 teacher	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					to the teacher	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teacher=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the truth				away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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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