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Test 11 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully

In a film, the little kid beats up the big bully and everyone claps. What actually works best with an older bully?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little kid · What happens: beat up, work · To what, where: big bully

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 472 «Rival teams and the older bully» 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: In a film, the little kid beats up the big bully and everyone claps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beats	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	amod
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beats	nsubj
8	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 beats	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bully	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bully	amod
12	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beats	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 claps	cc
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 claps	compound
15	claps	clap	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bully	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	present	the little kid	the big bully and everyone claps				in a film	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent bully=Patient in film=Topic

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: What actually works best with an older bully?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 works	obj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 works	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 bully	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bully	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 bully	amod
8	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present						with a older bully; actually, well property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material

The options

Option 1

Giving him all your stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stuff	det:predet
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stuff	nmod:poss
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		your stuff	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stuff=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fighting him like in the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fighting	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 film	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 film	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 film	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	gerund		him = he				like the film	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

Becoming a bully yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bully	det
3	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Becoming	xcomp
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Becoming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	gerund		a bully				yourself obl	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Getting a grown-up involved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Getting	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound:prt
6	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						involved property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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