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title: dont wanna go to the sleepover, need an excuse — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat… · tree and pragmatics
description: dont wanna go to the sleepover, need an excuse Test 12 · ★ of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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 12 · ★ · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks

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dont wanna go to the sleepover, need an excuse

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dont · **What happens:** go, need · **To what, where:** sleepover, excuse

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t12:1
# text = dont wanna go to the sleepover, need an excuse
1	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | dont |  |  | the sleepover |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleepover=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **need** | present | dont *not said here* | a excuse |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot excuse=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No excuse needed, «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t12:o1:1
# text = No excuse needed, «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | no excuse | Thanks |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say your gran is visiting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t12:o2:1
# text = Say your gran is visiting
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** | present · progressive | your gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Just don't reply at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t12:o3:1
# text = Just don't reply at all
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	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** **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Say you're ill so nobody's upset, it's just a tiny white lie

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t12:o4:1
# text = Say you're ill so nobody's upset, it's just a tiny white lie
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | it | a tiny white lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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