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Test 4 · ★★★ · Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight

Ethan laughed along at the sleepover and later lied that the teddy was his sister's. Why did the lie make things harder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, teddy, lie · What happens: laugh, lie, be, make · To what, where: sleepover, things

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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: Ethan laughed along at the sleepover and later lied that the teddy was his sister's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sleepover	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sleepover	det
6	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lied	cc
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 lied	advmod
9	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sister	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teddy	det
12	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sister	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sister	cop
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lied	ccomp
16	's	's	PART	_	15 sister	case
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Ethan			the sleepover		along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	Ethan not said here					late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the teddy					's Ethan's sister	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.

Sentence 2: Why did the lie make things harder?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lie	det
4	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the lie	things				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lies always get found out within one hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj:pass
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 found	advmod
3	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hour	nummod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present · passive		Lies			hour	always property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He then had to keep the story up, which made him more anxious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 keep	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 anxious	advmod
14	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He				then		tree rules
2	keep up	to-infinitive	He not said here	the story					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent story=Theme
3	make	past		him = he				anxious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 3

His sister would get into trouble at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	His sister			trouble		at school	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination

Option 4

There was no problem at all; the lie fixed everything and nobody asked again

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 problem	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fixed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lie	det
9	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixed	nsubj
10	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 fixed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fixed	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no problem at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fix	past	the lie	everything					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	nobody				again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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