Test 15 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes

Why is telling a parent about a bad mark better than hiding it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: tell, hide · To what, where: parent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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	3 telling	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 better	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parent	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 mark	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mark	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mark	amod
9	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 hiding	mark
12	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 better	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hiding	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive			a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	hide	gerund		parent					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

They will never find out anyway

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	4 find	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	future	They					anyway property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They can help before you fall further behind

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	3 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 fall	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	advcl
7	further	further	ADV	_	8 behind	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	They						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	you					behind property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Teachers prefer you keep it quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prefer	nsubj
2	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prefer	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Teachers						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	keep	present	you	it				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Bad marks disappear if hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marks	amod
2	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disappear	nsubj
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hidden	mark
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 disappear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	Bad marks						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide a condition, not said to happen	participle	Bad marks not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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