Test 8 · ★ · Your body and how you look

Why does it help to tell an adult when looks-teasing keeps happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: help, tell, look, tease, keep, happen · To what, where: adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» 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 help	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 looks	advmod
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 teasing	punct
12	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looks	acl:relcl
14	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keeps	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	it		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look	present			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	tease	gerund			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	keep	present			tree rules
6	happen	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They can help stop it and support you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 support	cc
7	support	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 support	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	can	They		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	They not said here	it	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
3	support	present	They not said here	you	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

They will laugh at the joke too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laugh	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 joke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	future	They			the joke			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They will tell you to change your looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 looks	nmod:poss
8	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	They		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	your looks					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 4

Adults cannot do anything about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 do	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can	Adults	anything				about it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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