Test 9 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

What should a school do when it learns about bullying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school · What happens: do, learn

This is test 9 · ★ 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 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 school	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learns	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 learns	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 bullying	case
10	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learns	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 learns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	a school						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	learn	present	school					about bullying	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bullying=Topic

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

Move the bullied child to another school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 school	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 school	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	the bullied child		another school			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Trajectory
2	bully	participle							vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Wait for the children to sort it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 children	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sort	mark
6	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 sort	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					for the children	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sort out	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Tell the bullied child to toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 toughen	mark
6	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the bullied child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bully	participle			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	toughen up not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Act to stop it and keep the child safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Act	act	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stop	mark
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Act	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Act	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	you not said here	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	the child	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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