Test 10 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

lied to mum last week, now she checks on me loads. unfair

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: lie, check · To what, where: loads

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 mum	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lied	obl
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 week	amod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lied	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 checks	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 checks	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 checks	nsubj
9	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 lied	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 checks	obl
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 checks	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 lied	punct
14	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lied	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past					week	to mum; unfair property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	check	present	she	loads			now	on me	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Keep telling the truth and trust grows back slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 telling	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grows	cc
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grows	advmod
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	grow back	present	trust		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Lie better next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Lie	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lie	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here				time	well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is unfair, she should just forget all about it by now

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	3 unfair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unfair	cop
3	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forget	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 forget	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 forget	advmod
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unfair	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	8 forget	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forget	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					unfair property	tree rules
2	forget	should	she					about it; all property	tree rules

Option 4

Ask her to stop checking right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 now	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	her = she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		now	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	check	gerund	you not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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