Test 14 · ★★ · Telling when someone may be lying

online guy selling a console for 20 quid, pay now or it's gone

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: online guy, guy · What happens: sell, pay, be · To what, where: console

This is test 14 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 guy	amod
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	nsubj
3	selling	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 guy	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 console	det
5	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selling	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 quid	case
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 quid	nummod
8	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pay	punct
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 pay	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund	online guy not said here	a console		for 20 quid	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent console=Theme for quid=Asset
2	pay	infinitive	online guy		now		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	guy			gone 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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't pay, rushing and too-cheap means it's likely a scam

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pay	advmod
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rushing	punct
5	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pay	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 means	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	9 cheap	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 too	punct
9	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scam	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scam	cop
13	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 scam	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 scam	det
15	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pay	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rush	gerund	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	cheap			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	it	a scam	likely property	tree rules

Option 2

Pay fast before it's gone, deals like that never come back twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Pay	advmod
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pay	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deals	punct
8	deals	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	conj
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 come	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 deals	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	fast property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	gone property	tree rules
3	deal	present			tree rules
4	not come back	infinitive	that	twice property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Send your card details

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 details	nmod:poss
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 details	compound
4	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	your card details					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme
2	detail		your						nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pay half first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Pay	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	half				first property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset

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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