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Test 9 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van

Mum to neighbour: «Love to come!» At home: «ugh, barbecues». Josh: «that's lying?» What's a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Josh · What happens: come, lie, be · To what, where: fair answer

This is test 9 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: Mum to neighbour: «Love to come!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 neighbour	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 neighbour	mark
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Love	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Love	punct
6	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 neighbour	appos
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Love	acl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 neighbour	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 neighbour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: At home: «ugh, barbecues».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 barbecues	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 barbecues	punct
5	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	7 barbecues	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ugh	punct
7	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 home	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 barbecues	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 home	punct

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

Sentence 3: Josh: «that's lying?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lying	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lying	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present · progressive	Josh						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: What's a fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's a white lie; an honest kind answer was possible

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	5 lie	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lie	amod
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 possible	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possible	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 possible	cop
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lie	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a white lie					tree rules
2	is	past	a honest kind answer					possible property	tree rules

Option 2

It doesn't count because it's only a neighbour, not family

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	4 count	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 count	advmod
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 neighbour	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 neighbour	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 neighbour	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 neighbour	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 neighbour	det
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 count	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 family	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 family	advmod
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neighbour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	it	a neighbour and family					tree rules

Option 3

No, saying nice things is never lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lying	csubj
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saying	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lying	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 lying	advmod
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nice things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	not lie	present · progressive	saying						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, and Mum is a very bad person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 person	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 person	cc
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 person	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mum	a bad person					tree rules

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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