Test 16 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

Ava says if a grown-up says it, it must be true. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, grown up, up · What happens: say, grow, be · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about people» 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 says	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 up	det
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 up	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 true	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ava			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	a grown up	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is	must	up		true property	tree rules

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

Yes, adults never lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lie	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 lie	advmod
5	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lie	present	adults						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, adults can be wrong or lie too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 lie	cc
8	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	adults					wrong property	tree rules
2	lie	infinitive	adults not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, unless they are strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 strangers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 strangers	case
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 strangers	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strangers	cop
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					unless strangers	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they are older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					old property	tree rules

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