Test 19 · ★★ · Your uh-oh feeling

Leah told the teacher a secret about her uncle and now everyone's whispering about her

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leah, everyone · What happens: tell, whisper · To what, where: secret, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday 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	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 uncle	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 whispering	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 whispering	advmod
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 whispering	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 whispering	aux
14	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 whispering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Leah	a secret	the teacher			about Leah's uncle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient secret=Topic
2	whisper speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone				now	about Leah	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic

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

Spread it, since everyone in the class knows about it anyway, so it's fine

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 knows	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 knows	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everyone	nmod
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knows	obl
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 knows	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fine	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 fine	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fine	expl
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fine	cop
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	know	present	everyone		about class; anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
3	is	present			fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Spread it, so the secret gets to her uncle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 uncle	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	get	present	the secret					to secret's uncle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to uncle=Result

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

Do not whisper or spread it; she did the right thing telling a trusted adult

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whisper	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 whisper	advmod
3	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 spread	cc
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whisper	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whisper	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 thing	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
15	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 adult	amod
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not whisper speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	do	past	she	the right thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the right thing not said here		a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Spread it, and guess what the secret was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guess	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 guess	cc
5	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 guess	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	guess	infinitive	you not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the secret		tree rules

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