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title: What would happen if Ella had told Hannah «I'm going to the beach in… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Ella had told Hannah «I'm going to the beach instead, sorry»? Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Being lied to and how it feels

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What would happen if Ella had told Hannah «I'm going to the beach instead, sorry»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ella · **What happens:** happen, tell, go · **To what, where:** Hannah, beach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t8:1
# text = What would happen if Ella had told Hannah «I'm going to the beach instead, sorry»?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Ella |  | Hannah |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hannah=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ella |  |  | the beach |  | instead *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location |

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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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Hannah would be sad, but less hurt than by the lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t8:o1:1
# text = Hannah would be sad, but less hurt than by the lie
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Hannah |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | participle | Hannah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the lie; less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hannah would be far more upset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t8:o2:1
# text = Hannah would be far more upset
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Hannah |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing — Hannah would not care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t8:o3:1
# text = Nothing — Hannah would not care
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | would | Hannah |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hannah would come to the beach with them next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels:t8:o4:1
# text = Hannah would come to the beach with them next time
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	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	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	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 | **come** | would | Hannah |  |  | the beach | time | with them *= they* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location |

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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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