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Test 7 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more

Ava's new: she wants friends fast. What's better than a made-up horse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: be, want, make up · To what, where: friends

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Ava's new: she wants friends fast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 new	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	3 new	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 new	parataxis
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wants	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wants	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 new	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is		Ava					new property	tree rules
2	want	present	Ava	friends				fast property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme

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 better than a made-up horse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	9 horse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 horse	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						than a made horse; good property	tree rules
2	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

A made-up famous uncle who plays football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 uncle	det
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 uncle	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 uncle	amod
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 plays	nsubj
8	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 uncle	acl:relcl
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	play	present	a made famous uncle	football					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

Option 2

A made-up pony instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pony	det
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pony	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 pony	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Real things about her, even small ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 things	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ones	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 ones	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 things	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Saying nothing at all forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing		all		forever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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