Test 10 · ★ · Copying and peeking in tests

Which is TRUE about cheating that is never found out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, not find out · To what, where: cheating

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 340 «Copying and peeking in tests» 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	ADP	_	5 cheating	case
5	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 found	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux:pass
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 found	advmod
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheating	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 found	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about cheating; true property	tree rules
2	not find out	present · passive		cheating					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice

It turns into real learning later

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 learning	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 learning	amod
5	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			real learning		late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into learning=Trajectory

Option 2

It is completely harmless

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 harmless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 harmless	advmod
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					completely, harmless property	tree rules

Option 3

It is only wrong if found 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	_	6 found	mark
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wrong	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 found	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	participle							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It still leaves you not knowing, and often feeling guilty

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 leaves	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 leaves	advmod
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leaves	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knowing	advmod
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 leaves	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeling	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feeling	cc
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 feeling	advmod
10	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 leaves	advcl
11	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	It	you	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not know	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	gerund				guilty, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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