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Test 9 · ★ · Closed doors, whispers and secrets

Gossip at the gate: «They haven't told the kids yet, she's moving jobs to Glasgow.» Why might the parents wait?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, parents · What happens: not tell, move, wait · To what, where: They, kids, jobs, Glasgow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Gossip at the gate: «They haven't told the kids yet, she's moving jobs to Glasgow.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gossip	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
7	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gossip	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	iobj
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 moving	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 moving	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 moving	aux
17	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
18	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 moving	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Glasgow	case
20	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 moving	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Gossip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		They	the kids		yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient kid=Topic
2	move in a quote	present · progressive	she	jobs	Glasgow				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent job=Theme to glasgow=Result

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: Why might the parents wait?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wait	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parents	det
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	might	the parents						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Because the move is a surprise party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 move	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 move	det
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 party	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 party	det
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	compound
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a surprise party				because the move	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To tell the children once, when they know more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 know	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	advcl
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			the children			once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	know	present	children = child	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 3

Because children never need to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 need	mark
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	children						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	children not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Because they want the children to find out by gossip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 want	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 gossip	case
10	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	they	the children					tree rules
2	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the children not said here					by gossip	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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