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description: Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!" What kind of lie is that? Test 4 · ★ 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 question and of e
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# Test 4 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police a…

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Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!" What kind of lie is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gran, that · **What happens:** open, dislike, say, be · **To what, where:** gift, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:1
# text = Gran opens a gift she dislikes and says "Oh, lovely!"
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dislikes	dislike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Gran | a gift |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gift=Theme |
| 2 | **dislike** | present | Gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Gran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What kind of lie is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:2
# text = What kind of lie is that?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | what kind |  |  |  | of lie | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A tall tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:o1:1
# text = A tall tale
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An inoperative statement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:o2:1
# text = An inoperative statement
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inoperative	inoperative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A white lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:o3:1
# text = A white lie
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Misappropriation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:28-stealing-and-lying:t4:o4:1
# text = Misappropriation
1	Misappropriation	misappropriation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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