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Test 11 · ★★ · How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say…

Mum is about to tell her friend some news, then stops: "Not mine to tell." What does she show you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, friend · What happens: be, tell, stop, show · To what, where: news, friend, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 49 «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» 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: Mum is about to tell her friend some news, then stops: "Not mine to tell."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stops	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stops	advmod
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 mine	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 mine	punct
15	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 mine	advmod
16	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stops	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mine	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 about	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 about	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mum					about property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Mum not said here	some news	her friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient news=Topic
3	stop	present	Mum not said here				then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Mum not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: What does she show you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 show	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	friend		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Forgetting something halfway through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Forgetting	obj
3	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	1 Forgetting	advmod
4	through	through	ADV	_	1 Forgetting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund		something				halfway, through property	tree rules

Option 2

That the news was a lie all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 news	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 news	det
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that news	a lie				along property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keeping someone's news for them to share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 news	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 share	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 share	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 share	mark
8	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keeping	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		someone's news					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
2	share	to-infinitive	them = they						tree rules

Option 4

Being rude to her friend on the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rude	cop
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 friend	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rude	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				the phone		to her friend; rude property	tree rules

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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