Test 19 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

your friend tells you "my mum's boyfriend shouts and scares me, but I'm not allowed to tell". is that a secret to keep?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, boyfriend, secret · What happens: tell, shout, scare, not allow, be · To what, where: you, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 shouts	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boyfriend	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mum	case
9	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouts	nsubj
10	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scares	cc
12	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shouts	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 scares	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allowed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 allowed	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 allowed	nsubj:pass
17	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 allowed	aux:pass
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 allowed	advmod
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tells	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	xcomp
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 allowed	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 keep	cop
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 keep	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 secret	det
27	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 keep	mark
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tells	parataxis
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	your friend		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shout speech: express in a quote	present	my mum's boyfriend				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scare in a quote	present	my mum's boyfriend not said here	your friend = friend			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	not allow in a quote	present · passive		your friend = friend			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	your friend = friend not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	a secret			keep 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

Yes, a promise is a promise, even when you are scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 promise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 promise	det
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promise	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 scared	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 scared	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 scared	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scared	cop
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 promise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a promise	a promise					tree rules
2	is	present	you					scared property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, her family will sort it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 family	nmod:poss
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	aux
6	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	future	her family	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Laugh, all grown-ups shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shout	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ups	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shout	nsubj
7	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shout speech: express	present	all grown ups	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; tell a trusted adult, because she's being made to feel unsafe

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 adult	amod
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 made	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux:pass
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feel	mark
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	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 S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · passive		adult			tree rules
4	feel	to-infinitive	adult not said here			unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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