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Test 11 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more

Freya says Amy's house, then Amy's gran's, then «the other gran». What does the changing story tell Mum?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freya, changing story · What happens: say, change, tell · To what, where: house, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 430 «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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: Freya says Amy's house, then Amy's gran's, then «the other gran».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Amy	Amy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Amy	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gran	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 gran	advmod
8	Amy	Amy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gran	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Amy	case
10	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod
11	's	's	PART	_	10 gran	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gran	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 gran	advmod
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 gran	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gran	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gran	amod
17	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 gran	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Freya	Amy's house the other gran				's Amy's gran	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent house=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.

Sentence 2: What does the changing story tell Mum?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	the changing story		Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient mum=Topic

The options

Option 1

That Amy has many grans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Amy	det
2	Amy	Amy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grans	amod
5	grans	gran	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that Amy	many grans					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That Freya is probably lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Freya	det
2	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 lying	advmod
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	that Freya					probably property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That Freya is confused about houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Freya	det
2	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 confused	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 confused	cop
4	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 houses	case
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that Freya					about houses; confused property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

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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