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title: What would happen if children kept every secret adults asked them to… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if children kept every secret adults asked them to keep? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 87 «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Good secrets and bad secrets

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What would happen if children kept every secret adults asked them to keep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** happen, keep, ask · **To what, where:** secret, adults

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 87 «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:t9:1
# text = What would happen if children kept every secret adults asked them to keep?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | children *not said here* | every secret |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | children |  | adults *= adult* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing; adults never ask children to keep bad secrets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:t9:o1:1
# text = Nothing; adults never ask children to keep bad secrets
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Nothing adults |  | children |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nothing adults *not said here* | bad secrets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Parents would always find out anyway, so it wouldn't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:t9:o2:1
# text = Parents would always find out anyway, so it wouldn't matter
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | would | Parents |  |  |  |  | always, anyway *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **matter** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Adults who harm children could hide it more easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:t9:o3:1
# text = Adults who harm children could hide it more easily
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	harm	harm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | present | Adults | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hide** | could | Adults | it |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children would be much safer than before, with fewer worries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets:t9:o4:1
# text = Children would be much safer than before, with fewer worries
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Children |  |  |  |  | with fewer worries; safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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