Test 3 · Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up

What would happen if Jake kept his pen pal's secret for months?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: secret

This is test 3 of lesson 16 «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» of the AI 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
5	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pal	nmod:poss
8	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pal	compound
9	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secret	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pal	case
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Jake	Jake's pen pal's secret			month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He could be pulled into something dangerous with no one to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulled	aux:pass
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 pulled	obl
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	could · passive		He		something		with no one	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result
2	help	to-infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The app would get bored and stop asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	would	the app	bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	the app not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	the app not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all, because secrets kept with an app are always harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harmless	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 harmless	mark
6	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 harmless	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 secrets	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 app	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 app	det
10	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 harmless	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 harmless	advmod
13	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		secrets not said here				with a app	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	secrets					always, harmless property	tree rules

Option 4

His parents would find out by magic anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 magic	case
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	would	His parents					by magic; anyway property	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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