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Test 10 · Peeking at presents and secrets

mate says «I read my sister's diary but she'll never know so it's not really wrong». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, diary · What happens: say, read, not know, not be, be · To what, where: diary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 356 «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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

Sentence 1: mate says «I read my sister's diary but she'll never know so it's not really wrong».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diary	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sister	case
9	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 read	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 wrong	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wrong	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wrong	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wrong	advmod
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 wrong	advmod
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 know	ccomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read in a quote	past	mate	my sister's diary					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic
3	not know in a quote	future	mate						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is in a quote	present	diary					wrong 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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Sisters don't have secrets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	Sisters	secrets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's wrong whether she knows or not

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	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 knows	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 not	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	know	present	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It's only wrong if she finds out you read it

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 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 finds	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finds	nsubj
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 finds	compound:prt
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 read	nsubj
10	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	find out a condition, not said to happen	present	she						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	read	present	you	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Diaries are for reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diaries	diary	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reading	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 reading	case
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Diaries					for reading	tree rules

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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