Test 4 · White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing

A cartoon shows a kid telling Grandad, "You look awful, you're dying!" and calling it "just being honest". What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, kid, You · What happens: show, tell, look, die, call, be · To what, where: kid, Grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 83 «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics 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: A cartoon shows a kid telling Grandad, "You look awful, you're dying!" and calling it "just being honest".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kid	acl
7	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 look	nsubj
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	parataxis
12	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 dying	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dying	aux
16	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shows	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 calling	cc
20	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 dying	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 calling	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 honest	punct
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 honest	advmod
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 honest	cop
25	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 calling	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 honest	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a kid			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	a kid not said here		Grandad		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient
3	look in a quote	present	You			awful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	die in a quote	present · progressive	you				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	call speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	kid			tree rules
6	is in a quote	gerund				honest 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: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nothing, that is exactly the right way to talk to Grandad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Grandad	case
12	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the right way				exactly property	tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive			Grandad				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to grandad=Co-Agent

Option 2

Honesty means you must say every thought out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 thought	det
7	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Honesty						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	must	you	every thought				loud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thought=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Honesty should be gentle; the big medical truths are for grown-ups to share

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gentle	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gentle	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gentle	cop
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ups	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truths	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 truths	amod
8	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 truths	amod
9	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ups	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ups	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 ups	case
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ups	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gentle	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 share	mark
16	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ups	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	should	Honesty	gentle property	tree rules
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the big medical truths	for grown ups	tree rules
4	share	to-infinitive	Honesty not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The kid should have lied and said Grandad looked young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lied	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lied	aux
5	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lie	should · perfect	the kid		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	past	Grandad	young 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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