Test 9 · ★ · Lied to by someone you love
In a film, a parent hides a big secret for years and the child never notices. What's more common in real life?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: parent, child · What happens: hide, not notice, be · To what, where: big secret, film, real life
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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: In a film, a parent hides a big secret for years and the child never notices.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | nsubj |
| 7 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 secret | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 secret | amod |
| 10 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hides | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 notices | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 notices | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 notices | advmod |
| 17 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hides | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hides | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a parent | a big secret | a film | year | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent secret=Patient in film=Location | ||
| 2 | not notice | present | the child | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: What's more common in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 common | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 common | advmod |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 common | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 common | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real life | common property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Secrets disappear by themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 disappear | nsubj |
| 2 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 themselves | case |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 disappear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present | Secrets | by Secrets = secret | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Parents never hide anything from their children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 hide | advmod |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 hide | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hide | present | Parents | anything | from Parents's children | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent anything=Patient from child=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Children never notice anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 notice | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 notice | advmod |
| 3 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 notice | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | present | Children | anything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Children notice something is wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 notice | nsubj |
| 2 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 notice | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | Children | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | something | wrong property | tree rules |
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