Test 8 · Being lied to and how it feels

What would happen if Ella had told Hannah «I'm going to the beach instead, sorry»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: happen, tell, go · To what, where: Hannah, beach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sorry	punct
18	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	12 going	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 sorry	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Ella	Hannah			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hannah=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	Ella		the beach	instead property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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.

The options

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

Hannah would be sad, but less hurt than by the lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sad	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 lie	case
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 lie	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lie	det
12	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Hannah					sad property	tree rules
2	hurt	participle	Hannah not said here					than the lie; less property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Hannah would be far more upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 upset	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 upset	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 upset	advmod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Hannah					upset property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing — Hannah would not care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 care	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	would	Hannah						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Hannah would come to the beach with them next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	obl
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Hannah			the beach	time	with them = they	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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