--- title: Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» Jack is furious. What can't the… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» Jack is furious. What can't the coach take away? Test 7 of lesson 452 «Being lied to and how it feels» 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/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/t7/) [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/) / [Being lied to and how it feels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/) / t7 # Test 7 · Being lied to and how it feels Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» Jack is furious. What can't the coach take away? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, Jack, coach · **What happens:** not promise, be, not take away · **To what, where:** anything This is test 7 of lesson 452 «Being lied to and how it feels» 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/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:1 # text = Coach: «I never PROMISED anything.» 1 Coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 PROMISED promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | I | anything | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Jack is furious. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:2 # text = Jack is furious. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Jack | | | | | furious *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* What can't the coach take away? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:3 # text = What can't the coach take away? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take away** | can | the coach | | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Jack's team shirt ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:o1:1 # text = Jack's team shirt 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The fitness Jack gained ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:o2:1 # text = The fitness Jack gained 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fitness fitness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 gained gain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gain** | past | the fitness | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 {#o3} Jack's birthday ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:o3:1 # text = Jack's birthday 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Jack's football boots ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t7:o4:1 # text = Jack's football boots 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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