Test 9 · ★★ · Good secrets and bad secrets

What would happen if children kept every secret adults asked them to keep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: happen, keep, ask · To what, where: secret, adults

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asked	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 children	acl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	participle	children not said here	every secret		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	children		adults = adult	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	children not said here			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing; adults never ask children to keep bad secrets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 adults	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 secrets	amod
10	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	present	Nothing adults		children				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing adults not said here	bad secrets					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 2

Parents would always find out anyway, so it wouldn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 matter	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 matter	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 matter	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 matter	advmod
12	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	would	Parents					always, anyway property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	not matter	would	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Adults who harm children could hide it more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 harm	nsubj
3	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Adults	acl:relcl
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harm	obj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	aux
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hide	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	present	Adults	children					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
2	hide	could	Adults	it				easily property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Children would be much safer than before, with fewer worries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safer	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 safer	advmod
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 safer	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worries	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 worries	case
10	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 worries	amod
11	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Children					with fewer worries; safe property	tree rules

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