Test 7 · Being lied to and how it feels
Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» Jack is furious. What can't the coach take away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Jack, coach · What happens: not promise, be, not take away · To what, where: anything
This is test 7 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: Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 PROMISED | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 PROMISED | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 PROMISED | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 PROMISED | advmod |
| 6 | PROMISED | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Coach | conj |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 PROMISED | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coach | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not promise speech: promise in a quote | past | I | anything | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=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: Jack is furious.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 furious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 furious | cop |
| 3 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 furious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jack | furious property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What can't the coach take away?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 take | obj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take away | can | the coach | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Jack's team shirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 team | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
| 3 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shirt | compound |
| 4 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The fitness Jack gained
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fitness | det |
| 2 | fitness | fitness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fitness | appos |
| 4 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the fitness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
Jack's birthday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Jack's football boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boots | compound |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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