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Test 8 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

Friend took money from her mum's purse once. What's a fair first step?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Friend · What happens: take, be · To what, where: money, purse, fair first step

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Friend took money from her mum's purse once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 purse	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mum	case
8	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 took	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Friend	money		Friend's mum's purse		once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from purse=Initial_Location

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 a fair first step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 step	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 step	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 step	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair first step					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Tell the whole school about it in assembly

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 school	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 assembly	case
8	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	the whole school		assembly		about school	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent school=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 2

Take some money too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	some money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

Never mention it ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 mention	advmod
2	mention	mention	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mention	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 mention	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	imperative	you not said here	it			ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Give her one chance to stop, and tell if it happens again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 chance	nummod
4	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chance	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 happens	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 happens	nsubj
12	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	one chance	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	you not said here	one chance not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	it				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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