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Test 9 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more

Emily: «I'll bring the dentist note tomorrow, promise». What's the wise thing at this point?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, wise thing · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: dentist note

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Emily: «I'll bring the dentist note tomorrow, promise».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bring	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Emily	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 note	det
8	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 note	compound
9	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 note	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 note	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	future	I	the dentist note tomorrow				Emily vocative	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent note=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 the wise thing at this point?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 point	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise thing at this point						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Promise again for Thursday instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Promise	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Thursday	case
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Promise	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Promise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here				again; thursday	instead property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say the dentist lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dentist	det
3	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past	the dentist	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Write her own note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 note	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 note	amod
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	her own note					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
2	note		her = she						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stop and admit there's no note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 admit	cc
3	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 admit	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 note	det
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 's	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	admit speech: other	infinitive	you not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no note			there			vn exist-47.1 «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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