Test 13 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

did u hear the bully told a kid "if u tell, ur dead", so he never told and "it went on for 2 years". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, bully, kid · What happens: hear, tell, not tell, go on · To what, where: lesson, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bully	det
5	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
11	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
14	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dead	nmod:poss
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 told	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 told	advmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	conj
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
28	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
32	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the bully		a kid		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a kid = kid				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert	past	bully				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go on in a quote	past	kid			year	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Only tell if he hits you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hits	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hits	nsubj
5	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hit a condition, not said to happen	present	he	you					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme

Option 2

Keep quiet so it doesn't get worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not get	present · do-support	it					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Fight back yourself after school instead of telling anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Fight	advmod
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Fight	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fight	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 telling	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fight	advcl
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	imperative	you not said here	yourself			after school		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult anyway; bullies rely on silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 rely	punct
7	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rely	nsubj
8	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 silence	case
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	rely	present	bullies		on silence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme

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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