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Test 4 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more

Theo: «it was a cinema for sick people, coach». Why does this make things worse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theo, this · What happens: be, make · To what, where: cinema, things

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Theo: «it was a cinema for sick people, coach».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cinema	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Theo	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 cinema	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cinema	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cinema	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cinema	det
7	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cinema	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coach	punct
12	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 cinema	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cinema	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Theo	a cinema				for sick people and coach	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: Why does this make things worse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	this	things				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

The options

Option 1

Sick people really do go to special cinemas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cinemas	case
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cinemas	amod
8	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	Sick people			special cinemas			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cinema=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's a bigger, sillier lie on top of the first

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	7 lie	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 lie	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bigger	punct
6	sillier	silly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 lie	amod
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 top	case
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 first	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 first	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a bigger sillier lie		top of the first			tree rules

Option 3

Coaches love stories about cinemas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 cinemas	case
5	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Coaches	stories				about cinemas	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It sounds completely true to the coach

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 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 coach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coach	det
7	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					true 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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