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Test 4 · ★★ · How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say…

Your friend: "I only told Mia, swear!" Now the whole class knows Jess's secret. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, whole class · What happens: tell, swear, know, happen · To what, where: Mia, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Your friend: "I only told Mia, swear!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swear	punct
10	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 swear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Your friend		Mia				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swear not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Your friend not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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: Now the whole class knows Jess's secret.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 knows	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 secret	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jess	case
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the whole class	Jess's secret			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Mia must have read Jess's diary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 diary	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jess	case
7	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	must · perfect · passive		Mia					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient diary=Topic

Option 2

Jess told everyone herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jess	Jess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 told	obj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 told	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jess		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Telling one person is how it spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spread	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 person	nummod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spread	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 spread	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spread	nsubj
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			one person				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
2	is	present	it					spread property	tree rules

Option 4

Secrets always come out on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Secrets			Secrets's own		always, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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