Test 9 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

spilt juice on the sofa, gonna say it was my sister

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sofa · What happens: say, be · To what, where: sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	spilt	spilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 juice	amod
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sofa	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sofa	det
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 juice	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 say	dep
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 juice	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sister	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sister	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	sofa	my sister					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

Fine if you say it quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 say	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you	it				quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Fine if she doesn't find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 find	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fine	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	present · do-support	she						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fine, she spills stuff all the time anyway, so they'll believe it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spills	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spills	nsubj
4	spills	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spills	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spills	obl:unmarked
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 time	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 believe	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 believe	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	aux
14	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fine	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	present	she	stuff			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme
2	believe	future	they	stuff					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, blaming her hurts her twice; own up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 blaming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hurts	csubj
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blaming	obj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 twice	nmod:poss
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 hurts	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 own	punct
9	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurts	obl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 own	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund		her = she		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	hurt	present	blaming		twice property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	own up	infinitive				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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