Test 22 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

Mia keeps calling Ollie "girlfriend" cos he plays with girls lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: keep, call, play · To what, where: Ollie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 22 · ★ 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 girlfriend	punct
6	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 girlfriend	punct
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 plays	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 plays	nsubj
10	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 girls	case
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plays	obl
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 plays	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mia			tree rules
2	call	gerund	Mia not said here	Ollie		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ollie=Recipient
3	play	present	Mia		with girls	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with girl=Co-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

It is a fair name, so use it too

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	5 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 name	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 name	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 name	amod
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 name	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fair name					tree rules
2	use	infinitive	a fair name not said here	name					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ollie should stop playing with girls so the name goes away and he gets more boy friends

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 girls	case
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 playing	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 goes	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 name	det
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 goes	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gets	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gets	nsubj
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 friends	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 friends	compound
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	should	Ollie			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	Ollie not said here		with girls	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with girl=Co-Agent
3	go away	present	the name		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	present	name	more boy friends		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She is teasing him to make him feel bad; boys and girls can be friends, so tell her to stop

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teasing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teasing	aux
3	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teasing	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teasing	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 friends	punct
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 friends	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 girls	cc
13	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 boys	conj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 friends	cop
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teasing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 tell	advmod
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teasing	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stop	mark
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tease	present · progressive	She	him = he			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he			tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	can	boys and girls	friends			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	She not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

It means Ollie is Mia's boyfriend

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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mia	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Mia	cop
5	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boyfriend	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mia	case
7	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	Ollie Mia's boyfriend					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Topic
2	is	present						's Ollie Mia	tree rules

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