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description: A voice exactly like Mum's calls, asks for the card code and says "don't tell Dad". Which detail is the biggest warning sign? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★

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A voice exactly like Mum's calls, asks for the card code and says "don't tell Dad". Which detail is the biggest warning sign?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** voice, Mum, detail · **What happens:** ask, say, not tell, call, be · **To what, where:** Dad, biggest warning sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the AI 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A voice exactly like Mum's calls, asks for the card code and says "don't tell Dad".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:1
# text = A voice exactly like Mum's calls, asks for the card code and says "don't tell Dad".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a voice like Mum's calls |  |  |  |  | for the card code | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a voice like Mum's calls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  | Dad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which detail is the biggest warning sign?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:2
# text = Which detail is the biggest warning sign?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which detail | the biggest warning sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The voice sounds exactly like Mum's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:o1:1
# text = The voice sounds exactly like Mum's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | the voice |  |  |  |  | like Mum; exactly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She said "love" at the end of the call

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:o2:1
# text = She said "love" at the end of the call
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | She | love |  |  | at the end of the call |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent love=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Being asked to keep it secret from Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:o3:1
# text = Being asked to keep it secret from Dad
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | from Dad; secret *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from dad=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The call came in the afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t6:o4:1
# text = The call came in the afternoon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the call |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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