Test 15 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

why's a harmful lie worse than a white lie

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 15 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 worse	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
4	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lie	amod
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl:unmarked
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 lie	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lie	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lie	amod
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						than a white lie; a harmful lie obl:unmarked; bad property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It hurts or gets someone in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 gets	cc
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hurts	conj
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 gets	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	present		someone		trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus

Option 2

Harmful lies are just jokes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lies	amod
2	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jokes	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jokes	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 jokes	advmod
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Harmful lies	jokes					tree rules

Option 3

White lies are always worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lies	amod
2	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worse	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worse	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 worse	advmod
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White lies					always, bad property	tree rules

Option 4

It's not worse, both are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worse	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worse	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 worse	advmod
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 fine	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 worse	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					both obl; bad property	tree rules
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules

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