Test 11 · ★ · Chores you skipped

«just pretend you're asleep, Mum'll unpack the shopping herself». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Mum · What happens: pretend, be, unpack · To what, where: shopping · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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: «just pretend you're asleep, Mum'll unpack the shopping herself».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 pretend	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 pretend	advmod
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asleep	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretend	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unpack	punct
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unpack	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 unpack	aux
10	unpack	unpack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretend	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shopping	det
12	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unpack	obj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 shopping	nmod:unmarked
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 unpack	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend in a quote	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	you		asleep property	tree rules
3	unpack in a quote	future	Mum	the shopping Mum		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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It's fine, she likes unpacking

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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 likes	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 likes	nsubj
6	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	unpacking	unpack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 likes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		fine property	tree rules
2	like	present	she		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	unpack not said to happen	gerund	she not said here		tree rules

Option 2

It's not lying if you close your eyes and say nothing at all

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 lying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 lying	advmod
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 close	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 close	nsubj
7	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 close	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 close	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 say	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not lie	present · progressive	It			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	close a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your eyes		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing	all	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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

Faking sleep is still a lie, and Mum does it alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lie	csubj
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faking	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 does	cc
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 does	obj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund		sleep			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient
2	is a	present	Faking	a lie	still		tree rules
3	do	present	Mum	sleep		alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

It's fine on weekends

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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 weekends	case
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl

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

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