Test 14 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

friend says don't tell, she's hurting herself

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: say, do, not tell, hurt · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 196 «White lies and kind silence» 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	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurting	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurting	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurting	aux
9	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 hurting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	friend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert	infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	present · progressive	friend	friend	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient

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

Tell everyone at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	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		everyone	school			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

Option 2

Ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Keep it secret, you promised, and promises always come first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promised	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 promised	nsubj
6	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	promises		always, first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Tell a trusted adult, her safety matters more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matters	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 safety	nmod:poss
7	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matters	nsubj
8	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	matter	present	adult's safety		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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