Test 3 · ★★★ · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret
The teacher: "Not everything needs to be shared, some things are just for you." When is keeping it to yourself kindest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everything, teacher, things · What happens: need, share, be, keep · To what, where: teacher, yourself
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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: The teacher: "Not everything needs to be shared, some things are just for you."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 needs | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 needs | punct |
| 5 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 everything | advmod |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shared | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shared | aux:pass |
| 10 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 needs | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 you | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 you | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 shared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | everything | the teacher not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the teacher not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | some things | for you | tree rules |
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: When is keeping it to yourself kindest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 keeping | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeping | aux |
| 3 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keeping | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 keeping | obl |
| 7 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 yourself | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · progressive | teacher | yourself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only when nobody else will listen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 listen | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 listen | advmod |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nobody | advmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | future | nobody | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Only when it's boring news anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 news | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 news | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 news | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | cop |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 news | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | boring news | anyway property | tree rules |
Option 3
Never, sharing is always caring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 sharing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Never | punct |
| 3 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 caring | csubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caring | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 caring | advmod |
| 6 | caring | caring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not share | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | sharing | always, caring property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
When the news is private for a good reason
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 private | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 private | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 private | cop |
| 5 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 reason | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reason | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 private | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the news | for a good reason; private 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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