Test 1 · ★★ · Good secrets and bad secrets

Your mate says, "All secrets are lies, so you can't even keep a surprise party secret." What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, secrets, you, best answer · What happens: say, be, not keep · To what, where: lies, party secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 87 «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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

Sentence 1: Your mate says, "All secrets are lies, so you can't even keep a surprise party secret."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 secrets	det
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lies	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lies	cop
9	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 keep	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 keep	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 keep	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 keep	advmod
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 secret	det
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 party	compound
19	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 secret	compound
20	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	all secrets	lies	tree rules
3	not keep in a quote	can	you	a party secret	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A surprise is happy, short and hides no harm, so keeping it is fine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 surprise	det
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hides	cc
8	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 harm	det
10	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hides	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fine	csubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keeping	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a surprise		happy property	tree rules
2	be		a surprise not said here			tree rules
3	hide	present	a surprise not said here	no harm		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient
4	keep	gerund		harm		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is	present	keeping		fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Secrets are fine as long as you never tell anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 tell	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Secrets					fine, long property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	present	you		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 3

He's right, every secret must be told at once, even a nice surprise party

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	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	_	9 told	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 told	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 party	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	17 party	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 party	det
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 party	amod
16	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 party	compound
17	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	must · passive		every secret					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Only birthday secrets are allowed, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 secrets	advmod
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 secrets	compound
3	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 allowed	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		birthday secrets					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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