Test 16 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

did u hear a boy brought a knife in his bag and "showed half the class", someone told and the head took it off him. what's the lesson

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, boy, someone, head · What happens: hear, bring, show, tell, take, be · To what, where: knife, bag, class, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bag	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bag	nmod:poss
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 showed	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 showed	punct
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 class	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 class	det
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showed	iobj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 class	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 showed	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 lesson	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lesson	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lesson	det
33	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bring	past	a boy	a knife		boy's bag		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	show in a quote	past	u not said here		half class			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	someone					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	the head	class			off boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme off he=Initial_Location
6	is a	present		the lesson				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 · ← Mova's choice

Keep quiet so he doesn't get in trouble with the head teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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	_	13 teacher	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teacher	compound
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trouble	nmod

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

Option 2

Only tell if he actually uses it

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 uses	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 uses	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 uses	advmod
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		it				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	use a condition, not said to happen	present	he					actually property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's his business, not yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 business	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 business	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 business	nmod:poss
4	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yours	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 yours	advmod
7	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 business	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	his business					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A secret about a weapon is never kept; tell an adult at once

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	8 kept	nsubj:pass
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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 kept	advmod
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kept	xcomp
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	present · passive		a secret about a weapon					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a secret about a weapon not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/t16/