Test 18 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

kids say Amy "spilled the surprise party, she's a blabbermouth and always ruins everything". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, Amy · What happens: say, spill, be, ruin, pass on · To what, where: surprise party, blabbermouth, everything, party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Amy	Amy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spilled	punct
5	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 party	compound
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blabbermouth	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 blabbermouth	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blabbermouth	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blabbermouth	det
13	blabbermouth	blabbermouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ruins	cc
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 ruins	advmod
16	ruins	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spilled	conj
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 ruins	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ruins	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spill in a quote	past	Amy	the surprise party		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location party=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	Amy	a blabbermouth		tree rules
4	ruin in a quote	present	Amy not said here	everything	always property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
5	pass on	infinitive		party		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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, she ruins everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ruins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ruins	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ruins	nsubj
4	ruins	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 ruins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	present	she	everything					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 2

Yes, and don't invite her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 invite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 invite	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 invite	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 invite	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 invite	advmod
6	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 invite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invite	imperative · do-support	you not said here		her = she				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, don't spread it; just keep happy secrets yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 spread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spread	advmod
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	conj
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 secrets	amod
11	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	happy secrets				yourself obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 4

Yes, and tell the birthday girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	compound
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	iobj

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

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