Test 14 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

grown up said touching was 'our secret'

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: grow up, say, touch, be · To what, where: secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	amod
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 grown	compound:prt
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 secret	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 secret	cop
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 secret	punct
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 secret	nmod:poss
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 secret	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	grow up	participle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	touch	gerund		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	our secret	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

Only tell another child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	iobj

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

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

Tell a trusted adult; that secret must not be kept

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	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 secret	det
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj:pass
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 kept	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	aux:pass
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not keep	must · passive		that secret		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Wait till you are older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 older	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you					old property	tree rules

Option 4

Keep it so you don't get in trouble with anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not get	present · do-support	you			trouble		with anyone	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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