Test 4 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

What would most likely happen if everybody who saw bullying told an adult?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everybody · What happens: happen, see, tell · To what, where: bullying, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 told	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 everybody	acl:relcl
10	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past		bullying			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bullying=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	everybody		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Bullying would be noticed and stopped much sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noticed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 noticed	aux:pass
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stopped	cc
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 noticed	conj
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 sooner	advmod
8	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 stopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would · passive		Bullying					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	stop	participle						soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bullies would get more attention and feel proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 attention	amod
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feel	cc
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Bullies	more attention					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
2	feel	infinitive	Bullies not said here					proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The adults would be too busy to help anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 adults	det
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 busy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 busy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 busy	advcl
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the adults					busy property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	the adults not said here		anyone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

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