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# Test 7 · ★ · Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go

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Mia's mate texts: "lol just tell em ur dad's on a secret tour in Brazil." What would that do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** dad, em, secret tour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 17 «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection 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/reflection/17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's mate texts: "lol just tell em ur dad's on a secret tour in Brazil."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:1
# text = Mia's mate texts: "lol just tell em ur dad's on a secret tour in Brazil."
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ur's dad | em *= they* | a secret tour in Brazil |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient dad=Topic |

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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 would that do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:2
# text = What would that do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	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** | would | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Turn the lie into the truth by Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:o1:1
# text = Turn the lie into the truth by Friday
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lie |  | the truth | friday |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lie=Theme into truth=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Make the first lie go away for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:o2:1
# text = Make the first lie go away for good
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | infinitive | the first lie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for good; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Help Mia feel calmer for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:o3:1
# text = Help Mia feel calmer for good
1	Help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mia |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mia=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | Mia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Make the lie snowball even more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:17-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go:t7:o4:1
# text = Make the lie snowball even more
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	snowball	snowball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lie snowball |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snowball=Product |

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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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