Test 11 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

dad's surprise party is sat, he's asking what we're doing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: surprise party, he, we · What happens: be, ask, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 dad	case
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	compound
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	cop
6	sat	sat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asking	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asking	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asking	aux
10	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 doing	obj
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 doing	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 doing	aux
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 asking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	dad's surprise party	sat property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	he		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Tell him, secrets are always bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
4	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bad	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	secrets					always, bad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Keep it secret, it's a happy surprise

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	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 surprise	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 surprise	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 surprise	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 surprise	det
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 surprise	amod
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a happy surprise					tree rules

Option 3

Give him a big hint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hint	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hint	amod
5	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a big hint	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hint=Theme

Option 4

Tell him if he asks twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 asks	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 asks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	he					twice property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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