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Test 1 · ★★ · Telling when someone may be lying

A shy new girl in Wellington looks at the floor when she says she has a cat. What is the fair thought?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shy new girl, girl, fair thought · What happens: look, say, have, be · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 198 «Telling when someone may be lying» 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

Sentence 1: A shy new girl in Wellington looks at the floor when she says she has a cat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
2	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Wellington	case
6	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 girl	nmod
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 says	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 looks	advcl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a shy new girl in Wellington					at the floor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	girl	a cat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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.

Sentence 2: What is the fair thought?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thought	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	amod
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair thought						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She is clearly lying about the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 lying	advmod
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	She					about the cat; clearly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about cat=Location

Option 2

You should ask her to look at you and repeat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 repeat	cc
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 look	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repeat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	You		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
3	repeat	infinitive	You not said here	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Shy people usually lie more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lie	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 lie	advmod
4	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Shy people					usually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Looking away is not proof, so there is no reason to doubt her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 proof	csubj
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proof	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 proof	advmod
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reason	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reason	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 reason	det
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 doubt	mark
13	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 reason	acl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 doubt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look away	gerund						away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not is a	present	Looking	proof					tree rules
3	is a	present	proof	no reason					tree rules
4	doubt	to-infinitive		her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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