Test 11 · ★★ · Promises, memory and keeping each other safe

Myth to check: «A true friend always keeps every secret, whatever it is.»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: true friend, friend · What happens: check, keep, be · To what, where: secret

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics 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	Myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Myth	acl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 keeps	advmod
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Myth	parataxis
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 secret	det
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whatever	punct
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 secret	appos
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 is	nsubj
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 whatever	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Myth	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Myth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep in a quote	present	a true friend	every secret	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	friend			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

True, unless it's about sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweets	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sweets	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	7 sweets	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sweets	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sweets	cop
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					unless True sweets	tree rules

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

False; if a friend is in danger, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 danger	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danger	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 danger	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 danger	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 False	parataxis
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a friend			danger			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

True; every secret must always be kept, whatever it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 kept	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 kept	aux:pass
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 True	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 True	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whatever	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 whatever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must · passive		every secret				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	secret	whatever					tree rules

Option 4

False, but only at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 school	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 school	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 school	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 school	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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