Test 11 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

told miss about it, she said "just ignore it". now what

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: tell, say, ignore · To what, where: miss, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
2	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 miss	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 told	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ignore	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 ignore	advmod
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ignore	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 ignore	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle			miss	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent miss=Recipient about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ignore in a quote	infinitive		it		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Give up, telling does not work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 work	csubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not work	present · do-support	telling	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Stay home from school for good and never go back there again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			school		for good; home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go back	infinitive	you not said here			there	again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Tell another trusted adult until someone helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	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	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 helps	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 helps	nsubj
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	another trusted adult	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	help	present	someone		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Hit him back so he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hit	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 stops	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stops	nsubj
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit back	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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