Test 7 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

Why is it brave to stand next to a child who is being teased?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, stand, tease · To what, where: child

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 brave	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brave	nsubj
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stand	mark
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brave	xcomp
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 teased	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 teased	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 teased	aux:pass
14	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 child	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		brave property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive			to a child; next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tease	present · passive		a child		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

It shows the bully that the child is not alone

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bully	det
4	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 alone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 alone	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alone	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 alone	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	the bully					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bully=Recipient
2	not is	present	the child					alone property	tree rules

Option 2

It is not brave, only silly

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	4 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 silly	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 silly	advmod
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					brave property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It means you will win any fight

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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 win	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	future	you	any fight					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It makes you the most popular child in the class

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 popular	advmod
6	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 class	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the popular child	you	the class			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary child=Product

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