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title: Friend took money from her mum's purse once. What's a fair first step? — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Friend took money from her mum's purse once. What's a fair first step? Test 8 · ★★★ 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 8 · ★★★ · When not to keep a friend's secret

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Friend took money from her mum's purse once. What's a fair first step?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Friend · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** money, purse, fair first step

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Friend took money from her mum's purse once.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:1
# text = Friend took money from her mum's purse once.
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Friend | money |  | Friend's mum's purse |  | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from purse=Initial\_Location |

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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's a fair first step?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:2
# text = What's a fair first step?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Tell the whole school about it in assembly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:o1:1
# text = Tell the whole school about it in assembly
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	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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* | the whole school |  | assembly |  | about school | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent school=Recipient about it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Take some money too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:o2:1
# text = Take some money too
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never mention it ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:o3:1
# text = Never mention it ever
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	mention	mention	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Give her one chance to stop, and tell if it happens again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret:t8:o4:1
# text = Give her one chance to stop, and tell if it happens again
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | one chance | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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