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Test 5 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

«I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, you · What happens: get, not tell, do · To what, where: crush, Ellie, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: «I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 tell	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crush	det
6	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Ellie	case
8	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crush	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 tell	obj
14	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · perfect	I	a crush		Ellie			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crush=Theme on ellie=Source
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=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 should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Tell a teacher at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tell	obl

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

Option 2

Tell the whole class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

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

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

Keep it — it's a good, private secret

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	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 secret	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 secret	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 secret	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 secret	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 secret	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
9	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 secret	amod
10	secret	secret	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					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a good private secret					tree rules

Option 4

Tell Ellie straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

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