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Test 3 · ★ · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks

A girl in Texas sprains her ankle doing a banned trick on the trampoline and is scared of being told off. What should she tell the doctor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, ankle · What happens: sprain, do, ban, be, tell off, tell · To what, where: ankle, banned trick, trampoline, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Texas sprains her ankle doing a banned trick on the trampoline and is scared of being told off.

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	5 sprains	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sprains	sprain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ankle	nmod:poss
7	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprains	obj
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ankle	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
10	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 trick	amod
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 trampoline	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trampoline	det
14	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 scared	cc
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 scared	cop
17	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprains	conj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 scared	advcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 told	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sprains	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprain	present	a girl in Texas	girl's ankle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=Patient
2	do	gerund	girl's ankle not said here	a banned trick		the trampoline			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
3	ban	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	is	present	a girl in Texas not said here					scared property	tree rules
5	tell off speech: assert	gerund · passive	a girl in Texas not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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 should she tell the doctor?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	girl	the doctor					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient doctor=Topic

The options

Option 1

Nothing, because doctors can always guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 guess	mark
4	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guess	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 guess	advmod
7	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	can	doctors					always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The truth, because the doctor needs it to treat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 needs	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needs	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 treat	mark
10	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 treat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the truth	doctor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	treat	to-infinitive	the truth not said here		truth				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

A story about tripping on the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 tripping	mark
4	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 story	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tripping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	gerund	a story not said here			the stairs			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory

Option 4

Whatever her friend tells her to say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 her	det:predet
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tells	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	her friend		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	her friend not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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