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Test 3 · ★ · The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff

A big sister says, «Keep my secret: I'm meeting someone I met online tonight, don't tell Mum». What should a little sister do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: big sister, little sister · What happens: say, keep, meet, not tell, do · To what, where: secret, someone, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 500 «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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: A big sister says, «Keep my secret: I'm meeting someone I met online tonight, don't tell Mum».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Keep	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Keep	punct
7	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 secret	nmod:poss
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Keep	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 meeting	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 meeting	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 meeting	aux
13	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Keep	advcl
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 meeting	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 someone	acl:relcl
17	online	online	ADV	_	16 met	advmod
18	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meeting	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 Keep	parataxis
23	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a big sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep in a quote	infinitive		my secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	meet in a quote	present · progressive	a big sister = sister	someone			tonight		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent
4	meet in a quote	past	a big sister = sister					online property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support			Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=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 a little sister do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Post about it so her friends can warn her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warn	nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Post	nmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 friends	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Post	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 warn	aux
8	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	can	Post about it so Post's friends		her = she				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Keep it, because sisters never tell on each other

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	_	7 tell	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 tell	obl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed

#	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	not tell speech: assert	present	sisters			each			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Tell a grown-up; it could be dangerous

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	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dangerous	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dangerous	cop
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	is	could	up					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

Go with her to keep her company and stay quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 company	nmod:poss
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stay	cc
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with her = she	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	her company					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
3	stay	infinitive	you not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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