Exam question 1 · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a good secret?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: good secret

This is exam question 1 of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 secret	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 secret	amod
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a good secret				of the following statements; accurately property	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.

The options

Option 1

A secret concerning someone being hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 secret	acl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 concerning	obj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hurt	aux:pass
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 someone	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	concern	gerund	a secret not said here	someone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
2	hurt	gerund · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A secret about a weapon brought to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 weapon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weapon	det
5	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 secret	nmod
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 weapon	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	participle		a weapon not said here		school			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to school=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A secret such as a surprise, which ends happily and harms nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 surprise	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprise	amod
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 surprise	case
4	as	as	ADP	_	3 such	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 surprise	det
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ends	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ends	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ends	nsubj
9	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	happily	happily	ADV	_	9 ends	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 harms	cc
12	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ends	conj
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 harms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	a secret surprise					happily property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	harm	present	a secret surprise not said here	nobody					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nobody=Experiencer

Option 4

Any secret at all that an adult asks a child to keep quiet about

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	8 asks	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 secret	nmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 adult	det
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asks	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asks	xcomp
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	12 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	any secret at all		a child				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	any secret at all not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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