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title: Myth to check: «A true friend always keeps every secret, whatever it… — Promises, memory and keeping each othe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Myth to check: «A true friend always keeps every secret, whatever it is.» Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Promises, memory and keeping each other safe

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Myth to check: «A true friend always keeps every secret, whatever it is.»

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** true friend, friend · **What happens:** check, keep, be · **To what, where:** secret

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe:t11:1
# text = Myth to check: «A true friend always keeps every secret, whatever it is.»
1	Myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	appos	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | a true friend | every secret |  |  |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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True, unless it's about sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe:t11:o1:1
# text = True, unless it's about sweets
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | unless True sweets | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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False; if a friend is in danger, tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe:t11:o2:1
# text = False; if a friend is in danger, tell an adult
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True; every secret must always be kept, whatever it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe:t11:o3:1
# text = True; every secret must always be kept, whatever it is
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | must · passive |  | every secret |  |  |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | secret | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
False, but only at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe:t11:o4:1
# text = False, but only at school
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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