Test 6 · ★★ · Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits

Lena's mum asks, "You alright, love?" Lena's had a rotten week. What would happen if she always says "fine"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, Lena · What happens: ask, have, happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 85 «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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: Lena's mum asks, "You alright, love?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lena	Lena	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lena	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 alright	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 alright	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 alright	nsubj
8	alright	alright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asks	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alright	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 alright	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Lena's mum						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Lena's had a rotten week.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lena	Lena	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lena	case
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 week	amod
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	participle					week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What would happen if she always says "fine"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 says	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 says	advmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	Lena					always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Mum would know anyway, without being told, and would fix it all secretly at school

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fix	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fix	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fix	aux
12	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fix	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 it	det
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	12 fix	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 school	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	would	Mum			anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	fix	would	Mum not said here	it	school	secretly property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at school=Value

Option 2

The problem would go away by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 problem	det
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	would	the problem					by problem; away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She'd be left alone with the problem, and nobody could help

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	4 left	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 problem	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 problem	det
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 help	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would · passive		She				with the problem; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with problem=Theme
2	help	could	nobody						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Her friends would stop leaving her out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaving	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 leaving	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Her friends						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	leave out	gerund	Her friends not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/85-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits/t6/