Test 5 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

How can you tell friendly teasing from bullying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: friendly teasing, bullying · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teasing	amod
6	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 bullying	case
8	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you	friendly teasing		bullying			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teasing=Recipient

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

Option 1

Bullying always involves hitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 involves	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 involves	advmod
3	involves	involve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 involves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	involve	present	Bullying					always property	vn require-103-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	hit	gerund	Bullying not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Friendly teasing is always about looks, bullying is always about grades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teasing	amod
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looks	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 looks	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 looks	case
6	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grades	punct
8	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grades	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grades	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 grades	advmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 grades	case
12	grades	grade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Friendly teasing					about looks and grades; always property	tree rules
2	is	present	bullying					about grades; always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bullying hurts the person and keeps going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeps	cc
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hurts	conj
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hurt	present	Bullying	the person	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient
2	keep	present	Bullying not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund	Bullying not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

There is no difference between them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 difference	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no difference between them			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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