Test 16 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

they leave me out on purpose every lunch, is that bullying

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: leave out, be · To what, where: me, purpose, bullying

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 leave	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 lunch	det
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bullying	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bullying	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 bullying	mark
12	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	present	they	me		purpose		every lunch obl:unmarked	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is a	present		bullying					tree rules

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

Only hitting counts as bullying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 hitting	advmod
2	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 counts	csubj
3	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 bullying	case
5	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	present	hitting					as bullying	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bullying=Attribute

Option 2

You should leave them out too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 leave	compound:prt
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	should	You	them = they					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It can be, tell a trusted adult

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	5 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
7	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 adult	amod
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	It					tell property	tree rules
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, that's just normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 normal	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 normal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 normal	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 normal	advmod
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					normal property	tree rules

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