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Test 10 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

«not my business, I just watch». Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: watch, be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 393 «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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

Sentence 1: «not my business, I just watch».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 business	punct
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 business	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 business	nmod:poss
4	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watch	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 watch	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 watch	advmod
8	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 business	parataxis
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 watch	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 business	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	present	I						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Watching is always harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 harmless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 harmless	advmod
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						always, harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

Bystanders change nothing, whatever they do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bystanders	bystander	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 change	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whatever	punct
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 nothing	appos
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Bystanders	nothing					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	present	Bystanders = bystander						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Bystanders can stop or worsen a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bystanders	bystander	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 worsen	cc
5	worsen	worsen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worsen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	Bystanders						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	worsen	infinitive	Bystanders not said here	a fight					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

Option 4

Only teachers can make a difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 teachers	advmod
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 difference	det
6	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	teachers	a difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Product

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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