Test 14 · ★ · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks

swallowed a little battery but dont wanna tell mum

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dont · What happens: swallow, tell · To what, where: little battery, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battery	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 battery	amod
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swallowed	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
6	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	8 tell	nsubj
7	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dont	flat:foreign
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 swallowed	conj
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past		a little battery					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	dont		mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Only tell if it hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hurts	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurts	nsubj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Drink lots of water and hide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drink	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lots	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hide	cc
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Drink	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	lots of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	hide	present	you not said here	water					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Wait till it comes out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	4 comes	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	present	it						vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her right now, it can burn inside you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 now	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burn	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 burn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 burn	aux
8	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	burn	can	it					inside you	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location

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