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title: Why should a child not hide a bad mark from her parents? — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should a child not hide a bad mark from her parents? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Lies that do real harm

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Why should a child not hide a bad mark from her parents?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** not hide · **To what, where:** bad mark

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» 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/197-harmful-lies/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:t7:1
# text = Why should a child not hide a bad mark from her parents?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hide** | should | a child | a bad mark |  |  |  | from child's parents | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mark=Patient from parent=Beneficiary |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Teachers will change the mark later if no one at home ever sees it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:t7:o1:1
# text = Teachers will change the mark later if no one at home ever sees it
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | future | Teachers | the mark |  |  |  | late *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | no one at home | mark |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They can only help with problems they know about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:t7:o2:1
# text = They can only help with problems they know about
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | can | They |  |  |  |  | with problems | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with problem=Theme |
| 2 | **know about** | present | problems *= problem* | problems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer problem=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They will never ask about your school marks anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:t7:o3:1
# text = They will never ask about your school marks anyway
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | future | They |  |  |  |  | about your school marks; anyway *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about mark=Topic |
| 2 | **mark** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hiding it makes the mark go up by itself next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:t7:o4:1
# text = Hiding it makes the mark go up by itself next time
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Hiding | the mark |  |  | time | by mark | tree rules |
| 3 | **go up** | infinitive | the mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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