Test 10 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

kid keeps calling me names every day at lunch, been weeks. is that bullying

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: keep, call, be · To what, where: me, lunch, weeks, bullying · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	xcomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 calling	obj
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 calling	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 lunch	case
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weeks	punct
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 weeks	cop
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 calling	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bullying	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 bullying	mark
16	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	present	kid				tree rules
2	call	gerund	kid not said here	me	lunch	day	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme name=Result
3	is a	participle		weeks			tree rules
4	is a	present	kid not said here	bullying			tree rules

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

No, name calling is just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calling	compound
4	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joke	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 joke	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	name calling	a joke					tree rules

Option 2

Only if a teacher has already seen it and written it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 seen	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 seen	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 written	cc
10	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seen	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 written	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 written	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	a teacher	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	write down	participle	a teacher not said here	teacher					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, hurting on purpose again and again is bullying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 hurting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hurting	punct
3	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bullying	csubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurting	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 hurting	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 again	cc
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 again	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bullying	aux
10	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	gerund				purpose	again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	bully	present · progressive	hurting						vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, it is only bullying if he hits you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bullying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bullying	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bullying	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 bullying	advmod
6	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 hits	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hits	nsubj
9	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bullying	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 hits	obj

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

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