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Test 2 · ★ · Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets

A girl says to Grace, "it's not that deep, it's only a secret." Why is she wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, it · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: Grace, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 4 «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» of the reflection 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: A girl says to Grace, "it's not that deep, it's only a secret."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Grace	case
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 deep	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deep	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 deep	advmod
11	that	that	ADV	_	12 deep	advmod
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 secret	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 secret	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 secret	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 secret	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 secret	det
18	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deep	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 deep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a girl		Grace				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grace=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	present	it					deep, that property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	it	a secret					tree rules

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: Why is she wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	girl					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She is wrong only because the secret was boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 boring	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 boring	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 secret	det
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boring	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boring	cop
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					wrong property	tree rules
2	is	past	the secret					boring property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Telling a private secret breaks trust that grows back slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 breaks	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
3	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 secret	amod
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trust	acl:relcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 grows	advmod
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		a private secret					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient
2	break	present	Telling	trust					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient
3	grow back	present	trust					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She is right, because the friend would have told everyone the secret anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	aux
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	advcl
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 told	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 secret	det
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
14	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		the friend	everyone			anyway property	tree rules

Option 4

She is right, secrets never matter to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct
5	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 matter	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	not matter	present	secrets					to anyone	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to anyone=Experiencer

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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