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Test 1 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day

A girl in New York pretends to be ill because a classmate is bullying her. Why is telling the truth better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, classmate · What happens: pretend, be, bully, tell · To what, where: girl, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 girl in New York pretends to be ill because a classmate is bullying her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretends	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 York	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 York	flat
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 ill	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ill	cop
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretends	xcomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 bullying	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 classmate	det
12	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bullying	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bullying	aux
14	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pretends	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bullying	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	a girl in New York						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a girl in New York not said here					ill property	tree rules
3	bully	present · progressive	a classmate		girl				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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: Why is telling the truth better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 telling	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 telling	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive		the truth				good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her parents can only fix the real problem if they know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fix	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fix	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 fix	advmod
5	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 problem	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 problem	amod
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fix	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fix	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	can	Her parents	the real problem					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
2	know a condition, not said to happen	present	parents = parent						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Pretending to be ill is the quickest way to make the bully stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	4 ill	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretending	xcomp
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stop	det
12	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stop	compound
13	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						ill property	tree rules
3	is a	present	Pretending	the quickest way					tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive		the bully stop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product

Option 3

Being ill is a good excuse that works forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ill	cop
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 excuse	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 excuse	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 excuse	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 excuse	amod
6	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 works	nsubj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 excuse	acl:relcl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						ill property	tree rules
2	is a	present		a good excuse					tree rules
3	work	present	a good excuse					forever property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The teacher will never find out, so she can keep pretending all term

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 find	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 keep	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	aux
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 find	conj
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keep	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 term	det
14	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pretending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	future	the teacher						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	keep	can	teacher						tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	teacher not said here	all term					tree rules

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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