Test 1 · Trusting again
Mate after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!» What actually rebuilds trust?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: trust, say, rebuild · To what, where: me, trust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 455 «Trusting again» 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 after a lie: «just trust me again, I said sorry!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 lie | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lie | det |
| 4 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 trust | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 trust | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 trust | advmod |
| 8 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 trust | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 trust | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trust | parataxis |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | infinitive | me | again | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize in a quote | past | I | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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: What actually rebuilds trust?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 rebuilds | obj |
| 2 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 3 rebuilds | advmod |
| 3 | rebuilds | rebuild | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rebuilds | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rebuilds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuild | present | trust | actually property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Waiting one minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minute | nummod |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A big expensive present
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 present | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 present | amod |
| 3 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 present | amod |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Saying «trust me» many, many more times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 3 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | obj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trust | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 times | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Saying | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | infinitive | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme many=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Being honest again and again over time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 honest | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 honest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | again; time | honest property | tree rules |
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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