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Test 1 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

Your best friend scribbled on a library book and asks you to say you didn't see anything. Which is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: best friend, you · What happens: scribble, ask, say, not see, be · To what, where: library book, you, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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: Your best friend scribbled on a library book and asks you to say you didn't see anything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scribbled	nsubj
4	scribbled	scribble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 book	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scribbled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asks	cc
10	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scribbled	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asks	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asks	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scribbled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scribble	participle	Your best friend			a library book			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on book=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	present	Your best friend not said here		you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your best friend not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not see	past · do-support	you	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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: Which is TRUE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Saying nothing is the same as telling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 same	csubj
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	is	present	Saying					same property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Saying not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is only a lie if the librarian asks you twice about the same book

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 asks	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 librarian	det
8	librarian	librarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	nsubj
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 asks	obj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 asks	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	15 book	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 book	amod
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a lie				the same book nmod	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	the librarian		you			twice property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Option 3

Real friends always lie for each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lie	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 lie	advmod
4	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 lie	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Real friends					for each; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You can stay her friend without lying to cover the damage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 lying	mark
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stay	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cover	mark
9	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lying	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 damage	det
11	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	can	You	her friend					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location
2	lie	gerund	You not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cover	to-infinitive	You not said here	the damage					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme damage=Destination

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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