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title: friend has a knife in his bag, said dont tell anyone — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: friend has a knife in his bag, said dont tell anyone Test 13 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

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friend has a knife in his bag, said dont tell anyone

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** have, say, tell · **To what, where:** knife, bag, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday 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/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up:t13:1
# text = friend has a knife in his bag, said dont tell anyone
1	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	dont	dont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | friend | a knife |  | friend's bag |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tell a teacher or another adult straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up:t13:o1:1
# text = Tell a teacher or another adult straight away
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a teacher or another adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wait to see if he uses it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up:t13:o2:1
# text = Wait to see if he uses it
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Keep his secret, he's your friend and he trusted you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up:t13:o3:1
# text = Keep his secret, he's your friend and he trusted you
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | his secret |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | he | your friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trust** | past | friend | you |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Take the knife yourself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up:t13:o4:1
# text = Take the knife yourself
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the knife |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |

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**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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