Test 19 · My body belongs to me

someone says a girl in our year told the counsellor something private and now everyone's guessing what, should i join in

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, girl, everyone, i · What happens: say, tell, guess, join in · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 year	nmod:poss
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	nmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 something	det
10	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 something	compound
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 told	obj
12	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 guessing	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 guessing	advmod
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 guessing	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 guessing	aux
17	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 guessing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 join	punct
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 join	aux
21	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 join	nsubj
22	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	22 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	a girl in our year	something		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient
3	guess	present · progressive	everyone		now	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	join in	should	i			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Yes, so the truth comes out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the truth						vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

No; she did the right thing, and gossiping about it hurts her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 did	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hurts	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurts	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurts	cc
10	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hurts	csubj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gossiping	obl
13	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	the right thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	gossip speech: other	gerund			about thing	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	hurt	present	gossiping	her = she		tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but only with your best friend, who promises never to tell anyone else

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 friend	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 friend	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 friend	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promises	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 promises	nsubj
11	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friend	acl:relcl
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 tell	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promises	xcomp
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 tell	obj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 anyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	your best friend						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	your best friend not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, because everyone is guessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 guessing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 guessing	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 guessing	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 guessing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guessing	aux
6	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present · progressive	everyone						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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