Test 13 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

friend has a knife in his bag, said dont tell anyone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: have, say, tell · To what, where: knife, bag, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bag	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bag	nmod:poss
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
10	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	11 tell	dep
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	friend	a knife		friend's bag	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a teacher or another adult straight away

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	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 adult	cc
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher or another adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2

Wait to see if he uses it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 uses	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uses	nsubj
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	use a condition, not said to happen	present	he	it	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Keep his secret, he's your friend and he trusted you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 secret	nmod:poss
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 friend	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friend	cop
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trusted	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trusted	nsubj
11	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trusted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	his secret	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	is a	present	he	your friend	tree rules
3	trust	past	friend	you	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4

Take the knife yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the knife				yourself obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

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