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Test 7 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

Mum's planning a surprise party for Dad on Saturday. Keep it or tell?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, you · What happens: plan, keep, tell · To what, where: surprise party, party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Mum's planning a surprise party for Dad on Saturday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 planning	aux
3	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 party	det
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 party	compound
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Dad	case
8	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 party	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Saturday	case
10	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 planning	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	present · progressive	Mum	a surprise party			saturday	for Dad	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic

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: Keep it or tell?

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	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	party					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Keep it — it's a happy surprise for a short time

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	_	8 surprise	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 surprise	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 surprise	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 surprise	det
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surprise	amod
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	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			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a happy surprise					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell a teacher

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

#	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 3

Tell Dad at once, because secrets are always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrong	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 wrong	mark
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrong	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 wrong	advmod
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	is	present	secrets					always, wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Tell the police

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	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	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 police					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=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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