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Test 11 · ★ · Closed doors, whispers and secrets

Cousin: «Grown-ups whispering on the phone means they're talking about you.» Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grown ups, Cousin, that · What happens: grow, whisper, mean, talk, be · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Cousin: «Grown-ups whispering on the phone means they're talking about you.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ups	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 ups	punct
4	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ups	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cousin	conj
7	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ups	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 phone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 phone	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whispering	obl
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talking	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 talking	aux
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 means	ccomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 talking	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whisper speech: assert in a quote	gerund	Grown ups not said here			the phone			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location
3	mean in a quote	present	Cousin and Grown ups						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	talk in a quote	present · progressive	Cousin					about you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic

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: Is that right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's usually someone else's private business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 business	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 business	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 business	cop
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 business	advmod
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 business	nmod:poss
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 someone	advmod
8	's	's	PART	_	6 someone	case
9	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 business	amod
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	someone's private business				usually property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and it means you're in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 means	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 trouble	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trouble	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you			trouble			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they're always talking about the kids and what they did wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 talking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talking	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 talking	advmod
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 kids	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kids	det
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 did	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 did	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	conj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 did	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · progressive	they					about the kids; always property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kid=Topic
2	do	past	kids = kid					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

No, grown-ups only whisper about money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ups	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whisper	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 whisper	advmod
7	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whisper speech: assert	present	grown ups					about money	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about money=Topic

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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