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Test 4 · ★★ · Good secrets and bad secrets

"Snitches get stitches," says an older kid about the vapes. What is really going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snitches, older kid · What happens: get, say, go on · To what, where: stitches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: "Snitches get stitches," says an older kid about the vapes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
2	Snitches	snitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kid	det
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 vapes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vapes	det
13	vapes	vape	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kid	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present	Snitches	stitches					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stitch=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	a older kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 really going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means snitching is good for your health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snitching	snitch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 good	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 health	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 health	nmod:poss
8	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	snitch speech: other	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present						for your health; good property	tree rules

Option 2

It's a joke, so nothing needs doing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 needs	advmod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	acl:relcl
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules
2	need	present	nothing	a joke not said here					tree rules
3	do not said to happen	gerund	a joke not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's a fair rule that everyone should follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rule	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 follow	nsubj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 follow	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 follow	aux
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rule	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fair rule					tree rules
2	follow	should	a fair rule						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's a threat meant to scare people off telling about harm; tell an adult

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threat	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 threat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 threat	det
4	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 threat	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scare	mark
7	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scare	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 scare	compound:prt
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 scare	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 harm	case
12	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telling	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threat	parataxis
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a threat					tree rules
2	mean	participle		a threat not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scare off not said to happen	to-infinitive		people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	gerund						about harm	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about harm=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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