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Test 4 · Little lies at home

Kid in the playground: «i said i was sick for swimming twice and it worked, so it's fine». What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, playground · What happens: say, be, swim, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: Kid in the playground: «i said i was sick for swimming twice and it worked, so it's fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 playground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 playground	det
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kid	conj
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 swimming	mark
13	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sick	advcl
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 swimming	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worked	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worked	nsubj
17	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swimming	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fine	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 fine	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fine	expl
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fine	cop
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sick	conj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 fine	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	i						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	i					sick property	tree rules
3	swim in a quote	gerund	i not said here					twice property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	work in a quote	past	playground						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	i not said here					fine property	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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He should do it only once a month

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 do	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 do	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	He	it				once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It worked twice, but it is still a lie and the fear stays

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	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 worked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lie	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lie	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 lie	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worked	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stays	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fear	det
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stays	nsubj
14	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	It					twice property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a lie			still		tree rules
3	stay	present	the fear						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is only wrong if Mum finds 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	4 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 finds	mark
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	nsubj
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 finds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	find out a condition, not said to happen	present	Mum						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing is wrong with it, because if a trick works it is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 works	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 works	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 works	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trick	det
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 works	nsubj
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 works	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					with it; wrong property	tree rules
2	work	present	a trick						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a trick not said here					fine property	tree rules

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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