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Test 1 · Being lied to and how it feels

Mate: «I never told no-one ur secret, swear down». Three people heard it from her. What's the most likely truth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Three people, likely truth · What happens: not tell, swear down, hear, be · To what, where: one secret, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 452 «Being lied to and how it feels» 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: Mate: «I never told no-one ur secret, swear down».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 secret	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 no	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 secret	nummod
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 secret	nmod:poss
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swear	punct
13	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 swear	compound:prt
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 swear	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I	ur's one secret					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swear down in a quote	infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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: Three people heard it from her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Three people	secret				from her = she	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from she=Source

Sentence 3: What's the most likely truth?

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	6 truth	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 truth	amod
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Secrets spread by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 magic	case
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Secrets					by magic	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by magic=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She told it and is lying now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lying	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	lie	present · progressive	She not said here				now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Three people guessed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 guessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Three people	it					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mia told it herself, without thinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 thinking	mark
7	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mia		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	gerund							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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