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Test 4 · The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad

Granny: «Don't tell yer mam about the chips, hen». A man at the park says: «Don't tell your mum I gave you sweets». Which secret must be told?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: not tell, say, give, tell · To what, where: mam, mum, sweets, you, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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: Granny: «Don't tell yer mam about the chips, hen».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
4	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Granny	parataxis
7	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mam	nmod:poss
8	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 chips	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chips	det
11	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mam	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hen	punct
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chips	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Granny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support		yer's mam				about the chips and hen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient about chip=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: A man at the park says: «Don't tell your mum I gave you sweets».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 park	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 park	det
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
9	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gave	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a man at the park						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support			your mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	past	a man at the park = man	sweets	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sweet=Theme

Sentence 3: Which secret must be told?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must · passive		which secret					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Both should be kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · passive		Both					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The man's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Granny's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Granny	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Neither should be told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should · passive		Neither					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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