Test 15 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

getting bullied every day, gonna pretend i'm sick to stay home

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: get, bully, pretend, be, stay

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 98 «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pretend	advcl
2	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 getting	xcomp
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bullied	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 getting	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 pretend	dep
7	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sick	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sick	cop
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretend	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stay	mark
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sick	xcomp
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bully	participle		day		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	present				tree rules
4	is	present	i		sick property	tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive	i not said here		home property	vn exist-47.1 «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

Stay home for the rest of the year, it's easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 rest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 easier	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 easier	expl
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 easier	cop
12	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Stay	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					for the rest of the year; home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present						easy property	tree rules

Option 2

Bully someone smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	compound
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 someone	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Keep it secret forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				forever, secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult so they can stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stop	can	they	adult		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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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