Exam question 3 · Closed doors, whispers and secrets
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a secret relating to being touched or hurt.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, secret · What happens: select, establish, concern, relate, touch, hurt · To what, where: response, secret
This is exam question 3 of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Select | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 facts | det |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 facts | amod |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consistent | obl |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 facts | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 secret | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 secret | acl |
| 13 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 touched | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 touched | aux:pass |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 relating | advcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 touched | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | consistent property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | |||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the established facts not said here | a secret | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus secret=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | relate | gerund | a secret not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | touch | gerund · passive | a secret not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | hurt | participle | a secret not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It must be retained indefinitely as instructed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 retained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 retained | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 retained | aux:pass |
| 4 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | indefinitely | indefinitely | ADV | _ | 4 retained | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 instructed | advmod |
| 7 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 retained | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | must · passive | It | indefinitely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | participle | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It may be disclosed solely to a younger sibling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disclosed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 disclosed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disclosed | aux:pass |
| 4 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 4 disclosed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sibling | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sibling | det |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 sibling | amod |
| 9 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disclosed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | may · passive | It | a younger sibling | solely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to sibling=Recipient |
Option 3
It must be disclosed only upon reaching adulthood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disclosed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 disclosed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disclosed | aux:pass |
| 4 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 disclosed | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 reaching | mark |
| 7 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 disclosed | advcl |
| 8 | adulthood | adulthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reaching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | must · passive | It | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | adulthood | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent adulthood=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It must be disclosed to a trusted adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disclosed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 disclosed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disclosed | aux:pass |
| 4 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 adult | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 adult | det |
| 7 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 adult | amod |
| 8 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disclosed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disclose | must · passive | It | a trusted adult | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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