Test 13 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

gonna say tom took my pen so i don't get told off

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tom · What happens: say, take, not tell off · To what, where: pen, i · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 say	dep
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pen	nmod:poss
6	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj:pass
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 told	advmod
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	take	past	tom	my pen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme
3	not tell off speech: assert	present · passive · do-support		i	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

Blame the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Say it, it saves you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saves	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saves	nsubj
5	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	save	present	it	you					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, he'd be punished for nothing, tell the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 punished	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punished	nsubj:pass
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 punished	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 punished	aux:pass
7	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Do	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 punished	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	punish	would · passive		he	for nothing	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for nothing=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 4

Blame everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 everyone	compound
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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