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title: Gehazi's lie needed another lie. What does this show about money lies? — Honest money: earning, raising and pay… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gehazi's lie needed another lie. What does this show about money lies? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 96 «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly

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Gehazi's lie needed another lie. What does this show about money lies?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lie, Gehazi, this · **What happens:** need, lie, show · **To what, where:** lie

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 96 «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gehazi's lie needed another lie.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:1
# text = Gehazi's lie needed another lie.
1	Gehazi	Gehazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | Gehazi's lie | another lie |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** |  | Gehazi |  |  |  |  |  | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does this show about money lies?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:2
# text = What does this show about money lies?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  | about money lies | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient about lie=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lies about money never need more lies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:o1:1
# text = Lies about money never need more lies
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | Lies about money | more lies |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Elisha should have kept quiet about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:o2:1
# text = Elisha should have kept quiet about it
1	Elisha	Elisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | should · perfect | Elisha |  |  |  |  | about it; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One lie is always enough to get away with it, if you're careful

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:o3:1
# text = One lie is always enough to get away with it, if you're careful
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | One lie |  |  |  |  | always, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get away** | to-infinitive | One lie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lie; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Lies tend to grow, so stopping at the first is easiest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly:t10:o4:1
# text = Lies tend to grow, so stopping at the first is easiest
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Lies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Lies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | Lies *not said here* |  |  | the first |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | Lies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | 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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