Test 19 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

someone's sharing a mean meme about Tom, everyone's laughing, should i send it on

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, someone · What happens: share, laugh, send on · To what, where: mean meme, meme

This is test 19 · ★ 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 send	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 someone	case
3	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 someone	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meme	det
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meme	amod
6	meme	meme	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharing	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Tom	case
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 meme	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laughing	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 laughing	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 laughing	aux
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 someone	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 someone	punct
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 send	aux
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 send	nsubj
16	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 send	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 send	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		a mean meme	about Tom	tree rules
2	laugh	present · progressive	everyone			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send on	should	someone	meme		vn confine-92-1 «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

Yes, because everyone has seen it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 seen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 seen	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 seen	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	everyone	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, but only to one friend, and tell them not to send it to anyone else at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 friend	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 friend	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 friend	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 friend	nummod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 send	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 send	mark
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 send	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 anyone	case
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 send	obl
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 anyone	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	one friend		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not send not said to happen	to-infinitive	one friend not said here	friend	anyone	all			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to anyone=Destination

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

No; sending it on helps the bully, so do not share it and tell an adult

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 sending	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 helps	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sending	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 sending	compound:prt
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bully	det
8	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helps	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 share	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 share	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 share	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 share	advmod
13	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helps	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 share	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 share	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 adult	det
18	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	send on	gerund		it		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	help	present	sending	the bully		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Beneficiary
3	not share	infinitive · do-support	sending not said here	bully		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	sending not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, as long as you do not laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 laugh	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 laugh	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 laugh	advmod
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	present · do-support	you						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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