Exam question 2 · Telling when someone may be lying

Identify the features commonly displayed by a person who lies in order to trick you.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, display, lie, trick · To what, where: features, order, you

This is exam question 2 of lesson 198 «Telling when someone may be lying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 features	det
3	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	5 displayed	advmod
5	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 features	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 displayed	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lies	nsubj
10	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 person	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lies	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 trick	mark
14	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lies	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 trick	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the features			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feature=Theme
2	display	participle		the features not said here		by a person; commonly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lie	present	a person		order		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location
4	trick	to-infinitive	a person not said here	you			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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

They offer nothing and make no requests at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offer	nsubj
2	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 offer	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 make	cc
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offer	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 requests	det
7	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 requests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	They	nothing					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	make	present	They not said here	no requests		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They speak slowly and give you time to think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 speak	nsubj
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 speak	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 think	mark
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	They			slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	infinitive	They not said here	you	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	They not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They rush you, offer too much, or ask for secrecy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rush	nsubj
2	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 rush	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 offer	punct
5	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rush	conj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 offer	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ask	cc
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rush	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 secrecy	case
12	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rush	present	They	you		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent
2	offer	present	They not said here	much		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	They not said here		for secrecy	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They encourage you to ask your parents first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 encourage	nsubj
2	encourage	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 encourage	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 encourage	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encourage	present	They	you					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		your parents			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

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