--- title: Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». What's true? — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». What's true? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 437 «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [When not to keep a friend's secret](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real friends · **What happens:** not tell, be · **To what, where:** whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 437 «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:1 # text = Kid: «real friends never tell, whatever». 1 Kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | real friends | whatever | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient | 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's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:2 # text = What's true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Telling always ends friendships ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:o1:1 # text = Telling always ends friendships 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 1 advmod _ _ 3 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **end** | present | Telling | friendships | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Real friends tell when someone could get hurt ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:o2:1 # text = Real friends tell when someone could get hurt 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 get get AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Real friends | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** | could · passive | | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Real friends never talk to teachers ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:o3:1 # text = Real friends never talk to teachers 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **talk** | present | Real friends | | | | | to teachers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Real friends keep every secret, whatever it is ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t10:o4:1 # text = Real friends keep every secret, whatever it is 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 obj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Real friends | every secret | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | secret | whatever | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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