Test 3 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret
Big cousin: «grass me up and you're dead». What does that threat show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, threat · What happens: be, show
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: Big cousin: «grass me up and you're dead».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cousin | amod |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 cousin | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | appos |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grass | nmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grass | compound |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dead | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 up | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cousin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | dead 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 does that threat show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 threat | det |
| 4 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | that threat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The secret is not okay, so tell a grown-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 okay | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 okay | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 okay | advmod |
| 5 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 tell | advmod |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 okay | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 up | det |
| 10 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 up | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the secret | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the secret not said here | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
Option 2
Sam should join in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 join | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 join | aux |
| 3 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 join | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in | should | Sam | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
He's just joking around, like big cousins do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 joking | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 joking | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 joking | advmod |
| 4 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 joking | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cousins | amod |
| 9 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 joking | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke around speech: other | present · progressive | He | around property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | big cousins | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The secret is fine to keep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fine | csubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the secret | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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