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Test 7 · ★★★ · Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight

Amira made up a story about a holiday so nobody would know her family was skint. Why might that not help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amira, nobody, family · What happens: make up, know, be, not help · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Amira made up a story about a holiday so nobody would know her family was skint.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amira	Amira	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 holiday	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 holiday	det
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 know	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 know	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 family	nmod:poss
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skint	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 skint	cop
16	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 know	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Amira	a story				about a holiday	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
2	know	would	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Amira's family					skint 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.

Sentence 2: Why might that not help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 help	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 help	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	might							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Other families would then have to lie too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Other families				then		tree rules
2	lie	to-infinitive	Other families not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Teachers check every holiday story with parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	nsubj
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 story	det
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 parents	case
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	Teachers	every holiday story				with parents	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd have to keep the story up, and there's nothing to be ashamed of

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	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	_	12 's	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 's	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 's	expl
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 's	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 ashamed	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ashamed	cop
16	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nothing	acl
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 ashamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	She						tree rules
2	keep up	to-infinitive	She not said here	the story					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent story=Theme
3	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	nothing not said here					ashamed property	tree rules

Option 4

Made-up stories always get found out on the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stories	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Made	compound:prt
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	nsubj:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 found	advmod
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 found	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	find out	present · passive		Made stories			day	always property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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