Test 14 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

someone made up a rumour about my mate online

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make up

This is test 14 · ★ 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 rumour	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rumour	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rumour	det
5	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 mate	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rumour	nmod
9	online	online	ADV	_	5 rumour	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Add more to the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Add	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	more				to the story	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient to story=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't share it, support your friend and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 share	advmod
3	share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 support	punct
6	support	support	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 share	conj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 support	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 support	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not share	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		tree rules
2	support	infinitive	you not said here	your friend		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Laugh and forget it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 forget	cc
3	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	it					tree rules

Option 4

Share it with a few people to find out whether it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Share	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Share	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 find	compound:prt
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 true	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 true	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it	with a few people	tree rules
2	find out	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it		true property	tree rules

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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