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title: «If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch». What's worse than being… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, rai… · tree and pragmatics
description: «If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch». What's worse than being called a snitch? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 75 «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no

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«If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch». What's worse than being called a snitch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, everyone · **What happens:** tell, call, be · **To what, where:** me, snitch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 75 «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:1
# text = «If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snitch	snitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | future | everyone |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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's worse than being called a snitch?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:2
# text = What's worse than being called a snitch?
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	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snitch	snitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund · passive |  | a snitch |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Missing the bus home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:o1:1
# text = Missing the bus home
1	Missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | gerund |  | the bus |  |  |  | home *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Getting a detention

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:o2:1
# text = Getting a detention
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  | a detention |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Losing a mate forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:o3:1
# text = Losing a mate forever
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  | a mate |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Having to explain it twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no:t6:o4:1
# text = Having to explain it twice
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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