Test 6 · ★ · Rumours and gossip

Why do people trust someone who keeps secrets?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: trust, keep · To what, where: someone, secrets

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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	4 trust	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trust	nsubj
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 trust	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
8	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keeps	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	present · do-support	people	someone					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	keep	present		secrets					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

Because that person never talks to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 talks	mark
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talks	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 talks	advmod
5	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 talks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	present	that person					to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because they hope to hear gossip later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 hope	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hope	xcomp
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	they						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	gossip				late property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They know their secrets will not be spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secrets	nmod:poss
4	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj:pass
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 spread	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 spread	aux:pass
8	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not spread	future · passive		their secrets					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Because keeping secrets makes you popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 makes	mark
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
3	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeping	obj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		secrets					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	make	present	keeping	you				popular property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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