Test 10 · Little lies at home

Which is TRUE about lying to get out of trouble?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, lie, get out · To what, where: trouble

This is test 10 of lesson 336 «Little lies at home» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 lying	mark
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 TRUE	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lying	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present		true property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund			tree rules
3	get out	to-infinitive	trouble		tree rules

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

It is fine if nobody gets hurt at once

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 fine	expl
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 hurt	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 hurt	nsubj:pass
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux:pass
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fine	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		nobody					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Grown-ups never notice small lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	amod
7	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not notice	present	Grown ups	small lies					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lie=Stimulus

Option 3

It always works if the story is good and you keep it the same

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 works	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 good	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 good	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 works	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keep	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
11	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	It		always property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the story		good property	tree rules
3	keep	present	you	story	same property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It often makes the trouble bigger when it comes out

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 makes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trouble	det
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 comes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the trouble				big, often property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material trouble=Product
2	come out	present	trouble						vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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