--- title: Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework a… — Soft words for hard things: crime, pri… · tree and pragmatics description: Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again." What has Sam done? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a… Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again." What has Sam done? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sam, Teacher · **What happens:** tell, report, do · **To what, where:** stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 28 «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again." ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:1 # text = Teacher's report: "Sam has been telling stories about his homework again." 1 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux _ _ 9 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Sam | stories | | | again | about Sam's homework | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about homework=Topic | | 2 | **report** | | Teacher | | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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:* What has Sam done? ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:2 # text = What has Sam done? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present · perfect | Sam | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Lied about his homework ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:o1:1 # text = Lied about his homework 1 Lied lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | | | | | | about his homework | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about homework=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Written great stories for homework ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:o2:1 # text = Written great stories for homework 1 Written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Forgotten his homework once ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:o3:1 # text = Forgotten his homework once 1 Forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | participle | | his homework | | | | once *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Read books aloud in class ```conllu # sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t3:o4:1 # text = Read books aloud in class 1 Read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | books | | class | | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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. 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