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title: Online «friend», a grown-up: «don't tell your parents about our chat… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Online «friend», a grown-up: «don't tell your parents about our chats». What is this? Test 2 · ★★★ 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.
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

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Online «friend», a grown-up: «don't tell your parents about our chats». What is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** our, this · **What happens:** grow up, not tell, chat, be · **To what, where:** parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Online «friend», a grown-up: «don't tell your parents about our chats».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:1
# text = Online «friend», a grown-up: «don't tell your parents about our chats».
1	Online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	appos	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	iobj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  | your parents |  |  | about our chats | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient about chat=Topic |
| 3 | **chat** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom chat «communication intransitive»: 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:* What is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:2
# text = What is this?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A normal friendly rule for online chats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:o1:1
# text = A normal friendly rule for online chats
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A danger sign — tell a grown-up at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:o2:1
# text = A danger sign — tell a grown-up at once
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a danger sign | a grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A secret you should keep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:o3:1
# text = A secret you should keep
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | should | you | a secret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A game everyone plays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t2:o4:1
# text = A game everyone plays
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | a game |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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