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Test 9 · My dad could lift a car: playground boasting

★★ «I swear down», «no cap» and «literally» are added to boasts. What do they change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, boasts · What happens: swear down, add, change · To what, where: ★ · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 48 «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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: ★★ «I swear down», «no cap» and «literally» are added to boasts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 added	nsubj:pass
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 swear	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 swear	nsubj
5	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	acl:relcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 swear	compound:prt
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 swear	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 literally	cc
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 literally	punct
15	literally	literally	ADV	_	11 cap	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 literally	punct
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 added	aux:pass
18	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 boasts	case
20	boasts	boast	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 added	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 added	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear down in a quote	present	I	★ not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent ★=Eventuality
2	add speech: assert	present · passive		★				to boasts	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to boast=Co-Patient

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 do they change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 change	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 change	nsubj
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · do-support	boasts = boast						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They turn a boast into a checked fact you can trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boast	det
4	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 fact	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fact	det
7	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fact	amod
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trust	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 trust	aux
11	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fact	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They	a boast		a checked fact			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent boast=Theme into fact=Trajectory
2	check	participle							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	trust	can	you	a checked fact not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme

Option 2

They make the number in the boast ten times smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 boast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boast	det
7	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 smaller	obl:unmarked
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the number		the boast		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset number=Product

Option 3

They mean the speaker is telling a lie on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	aux
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 mean	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	They						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	the speaker	a lie		purpose			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing: they make a boast sound surer but not truer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 make	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boast	det
6	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	surer	sure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sound	xcomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 truer	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 truer	advmod
11	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing	a boast					tree rules
2	sound	infinitive	a boast not said here					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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