Test 18 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

heard something juicy about Sienna, it's true tho so it's fine to tell everyone right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: hear, be, tell · To what, where: something, true tho, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about people» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 heard	obj
3	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Sienna	case
5	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 juicy	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tho	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tho	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tho	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tho	amod
10	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fine	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 heard	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	csubj
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 tell	iobj
18	right	right	ADV	_	16 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past		something			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	is a	present	it	true tho			tree rules
3	is	present				fine property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			everyone	right property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not fine; even a true rumour can hurt, so keep it to yourself

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 fine	advmod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 rumour	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rumour	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rumour	amod
7	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fine	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurt	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 yourself	case
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	a true rumour						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	infinitive	a true rumour not said here	rumour	yourself				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yes, if you say you heard it from others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 others	case
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	past	you	it		others			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from other=Source

Option 3

Yes, as long as she does not find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 find	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	present · do-support	she						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, true things can always be shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shared	nsubj:pass
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shared	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 shared	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 shared	aux:pass
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	can · passive		true things				always property	tree rules

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