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title: «I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!» What should you do? — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics
description: «I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!» What should you do? Test 5 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

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«I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!» What should you do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** get, not tell, do · **To what, where:** crush, Ellie, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:1
# text = «I've got a crush on Ellie, don't tell anyone!!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crush	crush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | a crush |  | Ellie |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crush=Theme on ellie=Source |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should you do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:2
# text = What should you do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Tell a teacher at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:o1:1
# text = Tell a teacher at once
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	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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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 |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tell the whole class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:o2:1
# text = Tell the whole class
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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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* | the whole class |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Keep it — it's a good, private secret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:o3:1
# text = Keep it — it's a good, private secret
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a good private secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tell Ellie straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t5:o4:1
# text = Tell Ellie straight away
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	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* |  | Ellie |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ellie=Recipient |

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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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