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Test 9 · Being lied to and how it feels

Big bro: «Gran's money never came, mate.» Gran: «I posted it, love.» What's the simplest check?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big bro, I, simplest check · What happens: not come, post, be · To what, where: bro

This is test 9 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: Big bro: «Gran's money never came, mate.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	amod
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 money	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Gran	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	vocative
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come in a quote	past	Big bro					mate vocative	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: Gran: «I posted it, love.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 posted	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 posted	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 posted	nsubj
5	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gran	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 posted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 love	punct
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post in a quote	past	I	bro					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Sentence 3: What's the simplest check?

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	5 check	det
4	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 check	amod
5	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Gran posted it, so ask what happened to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 posted	nsubj
2	posted	post	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 posted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 posted	parataxis
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	past	Gran	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past			it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Believe the brother because he's older and knows the post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Believe	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 older	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 older	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Believe	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knows	cc
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Believe	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 post	det
11	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here	the brother					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
2	is	present	he					old property	tree rules
3	know	present	you not said here	the post					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer post=Stimulus

Option 3

Ask the postman to guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 postman	det
3	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guess	mark
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the postman					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent postman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	guess not said to happen	to-infinitive	the postman not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Write to the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 King	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here		the King				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient

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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