Test 14 · My body belongs to me

someone said it's our special secret and i can't tell mum

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, it, i · What happens: say, be, not tell · To what, where: special secret, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 of lesson 57 «My body belongs to me» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 secret	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 secret	cop
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 secret	nmod:poss
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 secret	amod
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	our special secret		tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	can	i		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.

The options

Option 1

Wait until you are older to tell, then they'll believe you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 older	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wait	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 older	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believe	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 believe	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 believe	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 believe	aux
12	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you			old property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	believe	future	they	you	then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

Keep it, you promised

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	_	5 promised	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promised	nsubj
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	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	promise speech: promise	past	you						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Tell a trusted adult, secrets about touching are never okay

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	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 secrets	punct
6	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 okay	nsubj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 touching	case
8	touching	touching	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secrets	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 okay	cop
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 okay	advmod
11	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	secrets about touching		okay property	tree rules

Option 4

Only tell if it happens again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 happens	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happens	nsubj
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	it				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «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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