Test 14 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

older kid says keep a secret about touching, or else

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: older kid · What happens: say, keep · To what, where: secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 touching	case
8	touching	touching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 else	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 else	cc
11	else	else	ADV	_	3 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	older kid					else property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	infinitive		a secret				about touching	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent secret=Theme about touching=Location

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

Only tell your friend

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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

Option 2

Keep it, you promised, and promises are promises

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
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promises	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promises	cc
8	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 promises	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 promises	cop
10	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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
3	is a	present	promises	promises	tree rules

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

Say no and tell a trusted adult, that's never a secret to keep

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 secret	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 secret	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 secret	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 secret	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 secret	det
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	present	that	a secret		tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Wait to see if it happens again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 happens	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	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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