--- title: lied to avoid trouble, now it's worse — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: lied to avoid trouble, now it's worse Test 16 · ★ of lesson 195 «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/195-why-people-lie/t16/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Why people lie, and what is not a lie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/195-why-people-lie/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★ · Why people lie, and what is not a lie lied to avoid trouble, now it's worse **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** trouble · **What happens:** lie, avoid, be · **To what, where:** trouble This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 195 «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday 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/everyday/195-why-people-lie/#t16). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:195-why-people-lie:t16:1 # text = lied to avoid trouble, now it's worse 1 lied lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 4 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | | trouble | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | trouble | | | | now | bad *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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Keep quiet forever ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:195-why-people-lie:t16:o1:1 # text = Keep quiet forever 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 forever forever ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | forever, quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Add another lie to cover it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:195-why-people-lie:t16:o2:1 # text = Add another lie to cover it 1 Add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | another lie | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | lie | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Tell the truth now, the sooner the better ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:195-why-people-lie:t16:o3:1 # text = Tell the truth now, the sooner the better 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the truth | | | now | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Blame someone else ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:195-why-people-lie:t16:o4:1 # text = Blame someone else 1 Blame blame VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 else else ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | imperative | you *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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. 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