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Test 7 · ★★ · Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keep…

A boy told one lie last month. Why might his friends still double-check what he says?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, friends · What happens: tell, check, say · To what, where: one lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 335 «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises 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

Sentence 1: A boy told one lie last month.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lie	nummod
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 month	amod
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a boy	one lie			month		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=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.

Sentence 2: Why might his friends still double-check what he says?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 check	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 check	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 check	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 double	advmod
6	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 check	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 check	punct
8	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 says	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 check	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	might	boy's friends						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has told the truth far too often since then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 often	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
9	since	since	ADP	_	10 then	case
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	He	the truth				often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slow	cc
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quick	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rebuild	mark
9	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 slow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Trust					quick property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive	Trust not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		Trust not said here						tree rules
4	rebuild	to-infinitive	Trust not said here						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Friends never forgive even a single small lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forgive	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 forgive	advmod
3	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	8 lie	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lie	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lie	amod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lie	amod
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forgive	present	Friends	a single small lie					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme

Option 4

His friends cannot remember the lie any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 remember	advmod
5	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 remember	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remember	can	His friends	the lie					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lie=Theme

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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