--- title: swallowed a little battery but dont wanna tell mum — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat… · tree and pragmatics description: swallowed a little battery but dont wanna tell mum Test 14 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/t14/) [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, harmful lies and cheat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks swallowed a little battery but dont wanna tell mum **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dont · **What happens:** swallow, tell · **To what, where:** little battery, mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t14:1 # text = swallowed a little battery but dont wanna tell mum 1 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 dont dont X FW Foreign=Yes 8 nsubj _ _ 7 wanna wanna X FW Foreign=Yes 6 flat:foreign _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | past | | a little battery | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | dont | | mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | 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} Only tell if it hurts ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t14:o1:1 # text = Only tell if it hurts 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} Drink lots of water and hide it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t14:o2:1 # text = Drink lots of water and hide it 1 Drink drink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | lots of water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | present | you *not said here* | water | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Wait till it comes out ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t14:o3:1 # text = Wait till it comes out 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 till till SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come out** | present | it | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Tell her right now, it can burn inside you ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t14:o4:1 # text = Tell her right now, it can burn inside you 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 inside inside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | her *= she* | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 2 | **burn** | can | it | | | | | inside you | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location | **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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