Test 3 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

Why is a surprise party secret okay but a secret an adult says to keep forever is not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: surprise party, secret · What happens: be, say, keep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 okay	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 okay	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 party	compound
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 okay	nsubj
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 okay	amod
7	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 secret	det
10	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 okay	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	xcomp
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 not	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 okay	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a surprise party	okay property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a secret		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	to-infinitive	a secret not said here	forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 surprise	det
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ends	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 makes	cc
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ends	conj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 makes	obj
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	a surprise					soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	make	present	a surprise not said here	someone				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product

Option 2

Party secrets are short and all others are long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 secrets	compound
2	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 short	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 short	cop
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 long	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 long	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 short	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Party secrets					short property	tree rules
2	is	present	all others					long property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Adults are never allowed to keep any secrets at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 secrets	det
8	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Adults					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Adults not said here	any secrets		all			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent secret=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Any secret at all is fine if it is about a party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 secret	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 party	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 party	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 party	cop
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 party	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 party	det
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	any secret at all					fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	secret					about a party	tree rules

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