Test 13 · ★ · Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and te…

did u hear a kid kept faking stomach aches and when "his appendix actually went, his mum thought he was faking". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, kid, appendix, mum · What happens: hear, keep, fake, go, think · To what, where: lesson, stomach aches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 333 «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 aches	compound
9	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faking	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 went	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 appendix	nmod:poss
14	appendix	appendix	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
15	actually	actually	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mum	nmod:poss
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 faking	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 faking	aux
23	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thought	ccomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 faking	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	keep	past	a kid			tree rules
3	fake	gerund	a kid not said here	stomach aches		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient
4	go in a quote	past	kid's appendix		actually property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other in a quote	past	kid's mum			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fake in a quote	past · progressive	appendix			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Stomach aches are never real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aches	compound
2	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 real	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 real	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Stomach aches					real property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

False alarms make it harder to be believed later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 alarms	amod
2	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	8 believed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 believed	aux:pass
8	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 make	advcl
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 believed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	False alarms	it				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	believe	to-infinitive · passive	False alarms not said here					late property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 3

Faking is fine if you're bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 bored	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 bored	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	cop
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		fine property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	bored property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mums always know the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 know	advmod
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Mums	the truth				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus

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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