Test 8 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

Why do bullies tell children to keep quiet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bullies · What happens: tell, keep · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	bullies		children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	bullies not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Keeping quiet makes the bully stop sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeping	xcomp
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bully	det
5	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Keeping	the bully	soon property	tree rules
3	stop	present	the bully not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Telling always makes bullying much worse, so it's better to stay quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Telling	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bullying	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 worse	advmod
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bullying	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 better	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	expl
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	csubj
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Telling		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	bully	gerund		bad property	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Telling not said here	good property	tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive		quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Bullies rely on silence; telling is what stops it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rely	nsubj
2	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rely	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rely	advcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rely	present	Bullies		on silence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Bullies not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present				tree rules
4	stop	present		silence		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

Teachers do not want to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	Teachers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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