Test 8 · ★★ · The secret that got told

«Ellie read your diary out, but you did call her a goose». Who was in the wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ellie, you · What happens: read out, call, be · To what, where: diary, Ellie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 476 «The secret that got told» 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: «Ellie read your diary out, but you did call her a goose».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 diary	nmod:poss
5	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 read	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 call	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 call	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 call	aux
11	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 read	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 call	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out in a quote	infinitive	Ellie	your diary					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic
2	call in a quote	past · do-support	you		Ellie				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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: Who was in the wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wrong	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrong	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only Maddie, she wrote it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Maddie	advmod
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Maddie	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Maddie	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both: reading it was wrong and so were the mean words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 reading	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 words	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reading	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 so	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	6 wrong	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 words	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund	Both			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it		wrong property	tree rules
3	is a	past	reading	the mean words		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only Ellie, because diaries are private, whatever's in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Ellie	advmod
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 private	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 private	mark
5	diaries	diary	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 private	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 private	cop
7	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ellie	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whatever	punct
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 private	conj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 them	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	diaries					private property	tree rules
2	is	present						in them = they	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody, it was a sleepover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 sleepover	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleepover	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleepover	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sleepover	det
6	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nobody	a sleepover					tree rules

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