Test 7 · ★ · The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret

Noah's mate: "it's just a cat, chill, it ran off." What's the honest view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cat, honest view · What happens: be, chill, run off · To what, where: cat

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 15 «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» 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: Noah's mate: "it's just a cat, chill, it ran off."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Noah	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chill	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cat	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cat	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 cat	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chill	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct
12	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chill	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 ran	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	mate	a cat	tree rules
2	chill in a quote	infinitive	Noah's mate		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	run off in a quote	past	cat		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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's the honest view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honest view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

His mate is right; animals don't really feel pain like people do

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 feel	punct
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feel	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 feel	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 feel	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 feel	advmod
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	conj
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feel	obj
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	His mate		right property	tree rules
2	not feel	present · do-support	animals	pain		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
3	do	present	people			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hurting an animal is wrong, and his anger needs help, not hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wrong	csubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hurting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 anger	nmod:poss
9	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	conj
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hiding	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hiding	advmod
14	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wrong	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hurt	gerund		a animal		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient
2	is	present	Hurting		wrong property	tree rules
3	need	present	animal's anger	help		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
4	not hide	gerund				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	anger		animal			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It's fine if the animal runs away afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 runs	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 runs	advmod
9	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	run away a condition, not said to happen	present	the animal					afterwards, away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cats don't count because they're not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 count	advmod
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 people	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 people	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 people	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 people	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 count	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	Cats						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not is a	present	Cats = cat	people					tree rules

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