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Test 10 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real friends · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 437 «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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: Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kid	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whatever	punct
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tell	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 whatever	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	real friends	whatever					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient

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

Telling always ends friendships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ends	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Telling	advmod
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund						always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end	present	Telling	friendships					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Real friends tell when someone could get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hurt	advmod
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hurt	nsubj:pass
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux:pass
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Real friends						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt	could · passive		someone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Real friends never talk to teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	present	Real friends					to teachers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Real friends keep every secret, whatever it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 secret	det
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whatever	punct
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 keep	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whatever	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whatever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Real friends	every secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	is a	present	secret	whatever					tree rules

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