---
title: Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear». It's the fifth time. W… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear». It's the fifth time. What's wise? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/t3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Lied to by someone you love](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/) / t3

# Test 3 · ★ · Lied to by someone you love

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear». It's the fifth time. What's wise?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Uncle, buddy · **What happens:** pay back, swear, be · **To what, where:** ya, fifth time

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/#t3).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:1
# text = Uncle: «pay ya back next week, buddy, swear».
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Uncle | ya |  |  | week |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* It's the fifth time.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:2
# text = It's the fifth time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | buddy | the fifth time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 3:* What's wise?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:3
# text = What's wise?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Love him, but stop lending

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:o1:1
# text = Love him, but stop lending
1	Love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lend more to be kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:o2:1
# text = Lend more to be kind
1	Lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hide his wallet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:o3:1
# text = Hide his wallet
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | his wallet |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shout at him in front of everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love:t3:o4:1
# text = Shout at him in front of everyone
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | front of everyone |  | at him *= he* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Lied to by someone you love, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/t2/)
- next →: [Lied to by someone you love, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/t4/)
- ↑ back to [Lied to by someone you love](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)

