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Test 9 · Little lies at home

A boy owns up to a lie at bedtime, before Mum asks. What usually follows?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, Mum · What happens: own up, ask, follow · To what, where: bedtime

This is test 9 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: A boy owns up to a lie at bedtime, before Mum asks.

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 owns	nsubj
3	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 owns	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lie	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owns	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 bedtime	case
9	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owns	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 asks	mark
12	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	nsubj
13	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 owns	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 owns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	present	a boy			bedtime		to a lie	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	ask speech: ask	present	Mum						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What usually follows?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 follows	obj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 follows	advmod
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 follows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present						usually property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing changes at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The trouble is smaller and trust comes back faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trouble	det
2	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smaller	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	cop
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 comes	cc
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 comes	advmod
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the trouble					small property	tree rules
2	come back	present	trust					fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He gets a much bigger punishment

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	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 punishment	det
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 punishment	amod
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	He	a bigger punishment					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mum stops believing anything he says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 believing	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Mum						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	believe	gerund	Mum not said here	anything					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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