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title: Why does a false reading log hurt the child who writes it? — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a false reading log hurt the child who writes it? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Honest work at school

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Why does a false reading log hurt the child who writes it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** false reading log, child · **What happens:** hurt, write · **To what, where:** child

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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/201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:t8:1
# text = Why does a false reading log hurt the child who writes it?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present · do-support | a false reading log | the child |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | present | the child | child |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The child will have to read more books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:t8:o1:1
# text = The child will have to read more books
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | the child |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | more books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The teacher cannot help with reading she does not know about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:t8:o2:1
# text = The teacher cannot help with reading she does not know about
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reading logs are marked very strictly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:t8:o3:1
# text = Reading logs are marked very strictly
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mark** | present · passive |  | Reading logs |  |  |  | strictly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It does not hurt anyone at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:t8:o4:1
# text = It does not hurt anyone at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | It | anyone |  | all |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |

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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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