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Test 3 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more

Kid: «just keep adding stuff, they'll never check». What usually happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid, they · What happens: keep, add, not check, happen · To what, where: stuff

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Kid: «just keep adding stuff, they'll never check».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 check	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 check	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 check	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 check	advmod
12	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 check	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	infinitive	Kid						tree rules
2	add speech: assert in a quote	gerund	Kid not said here	stuff					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
3	not check in a quote	future	they						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						usually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

People get bored and stop asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stop	cc
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	People					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	People not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	People not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Adding lots of details makes a lie turn true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
2	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Adding	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 details	case
4	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lots	nmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		lots of details					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	make	present	Adding	a lie					tree rules
3	turn	infinitive	a lie not said here					true property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bigger the story, the more ways to check it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bigger	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ways	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bigger	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ways	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ways	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ways	amod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 check	mark
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ways	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive		story					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Bigger stories are always believed by grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 believed	advmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 ups	case
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present · passive	grown ups	Bigger stories				always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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