Test 1 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it
Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh. What is this?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two older girls, this · What happens: take, laugh, be · To what, where: snack
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 55 «Bullying and how to stop it» 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: Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 lunch | case |
| 4 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Leeds | case |
| 6 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lunch | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 girls | nummod |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 girls | amod |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 snack | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ella | case |
| 14 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laugh | cc |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | two older girls | Ella's snack | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | present | two older girls not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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: What is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A fair trade, because they are older
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trade | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trade | amod |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 older | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 older | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 older | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 older | cop |
| 8 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 trade | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | old property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bullying, because it is on purpose and keeps happening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 purpose | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 purpose | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 purpose | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 purpose | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bullying | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 keeps | cc |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bullying | conj |
| 10 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | happen | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing to worry about, as long as it is only a snack and not money
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 worry | mark |
| 3 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 worry | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snack | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 snack | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 snack | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 snack | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 snack | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 snack | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snack | det |
| 13 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 money | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 money | advmod |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | to-infinitive | about property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a snack | long property | tree rules |
Option 4
A joke, because they laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 laugh | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laugh | nsubj |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 joke | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | they | a joke not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
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