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Test 6 · Little lies at home

Father at confession: «Is there anyone you need to make it right with?» Owen lied to his mum about biscuits. What is the truthful answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Father confession, you, Owen, truthful answer · What happens: be, need, make, lie · To what, where: anyone, confession

This is test 6 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: Father at confession: «Is there anyone you need to make it right with?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 confession	compound
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 confession	case
3	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anyone	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Is	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Is	punct
6	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anyone	cop
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 Is	expl
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anyone	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	14 right	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 anyone	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 anyone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Father confession	anyone					tree rules
2	need in a quote	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	confession				right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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: Owen lied to his mum about biscuits.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mum	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lied	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 biscuits	case
7	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lied	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Owen					to Owen's mum; about biscuits	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about biscuit=Location

Sentence 3: What is the truthful answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truthful answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nobody, because it was only two biscuits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 biscuits	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 biscuits	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 biscuits	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 biscuits	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 two	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 biscuits	nummod
8	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nobody	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	two biscuits					tree rules

Option 2

Only the biscuit tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 tin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tin	det
3	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tin	compound
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Mum, and he has said sorry to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 Mum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mum	punct
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 Mum	acl:relcl
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sorry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	present · perfect	he	Mum not said here				sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mum=Topic

Option 4

No, confession sorts out everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sorts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorts	nsubj
4	sorts	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sorts	compound:prt
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 sorts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	present	confession	everything					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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