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Test 3 · ★★ · Your uh-oh feeling

Max's uncle gives him a present and says, «Don't tell your mum, it's our secret.» Max feels uneasy. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, present, Max · What happens: give, say, not tell, be, feel, do · To what, where: present, Max, mum, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Max's uncle gives him a present and says, «Don't tell your mum, it's our secret.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Max	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gives	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 present	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 secret	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 secret	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 secret	cop
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 secret	nmod:poss
21	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Max's uncle	a present	Max				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Max's uncle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support			your mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	present	our secret					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: Max feels uneasy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	xcomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Max					uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Max						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Tell only his best friend about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 friend	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		his best friend			about friend	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 2

Keep the secret because it was a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 secret	det
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 gift	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gift	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gift	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gift	det
8	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	is a	past	secret	a gift					tree rules

Option 3

Give the present back and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 present	det
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	the present					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell his mum or another trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 adult	cc
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 adult	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		his mum or another trusted adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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