Test 17 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

everyone's saying the bullying stopped cos Josh hit the bully back, so hitting back works

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, bullying, Josh, hitting · What happens: say, stop, hit back, work · To what, where: bully · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bullying	det
5	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 hit	mark
8	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bully	det
11	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 hit	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 works	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 works	advmod
15	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 works	csubj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 hitting	advmod
17	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	past	the bullying		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hit back	past	Josh	the bully	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bully=Co-Theme
4	hit back	gerund			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	work	present	hitting		vn employment-95.3 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One story proves nothing; hitting back can make it worse, so tell an adult

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 story	nummod
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 proves	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
6	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 make	csubj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 hitting	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proves	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 make	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proves	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prove	present	One story	nothing			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	hit back	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	can	hitting	story		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	One story not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

It proves hitting back always works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 works	csubj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 hitting	advmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 works	advmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit back	gerund			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work	present	hitting	always property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It shows bullies only stop when someone finally hits them hard enough to scare them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 hits	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 hits	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 hits	advmod
9	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hits	obj
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 hits	advmod
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 scare	mark
14	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	It			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present	bullies			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hit	present	someone	bullies = bully	finally, hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
4	scare	to-infinitive	someone not said here	bullies = bully		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

It means teachers never help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	teachers					tree rules
2	not help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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