Test 10 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van
In a cartoon, a kid finds out a parent's fib and never speaks to them again. What usually happens in real life?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, parent · What happens: find out, not speak, fib, happen · To what, where: fib, cartoon, them, real life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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: In a cartoon, a kid finds out a parent's fib and never speaks to them again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | nsubj |
| 7 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 finds | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fib | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 parent | case |
| 12 | fib | fib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 speaks | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 speaks | advmod |
| 15 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 finds | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 speaks | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 speaks | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | present | a kid | a parent's fib | a cartoon | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fib=Topic | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | present | a kid not said here | them = they | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | fib | a parent | nom fib «communication intransitive»: poss=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 in real life?
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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happens | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | real life | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
The options
Option 1
They never speak again either
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 speak | advmod |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 speak | advmod |
| 5 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 speak | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | present | They | again | either property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They talk, often laugh, and move on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 laugh | punct |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 laugh | advmod |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 move | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 move | cc |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 move | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | They | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | present | They not said here | often property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | move on | infinitive | They not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The kid has to say sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the kid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize | to-infinitive | the kid not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The parent moves to another country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the parent | another country | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to country=Trajectory |
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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