Test 19 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

heard Noah told on the boys who were picking on him n now everyone's calling him a snitch, gonna tell the group chat. what should u do

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah, boys, everyone, u · What happens: hear, tell, not pick, call, do · To what, where: Noah, group chat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 boys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 picking	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 picking	aux
9	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 boys	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 picking	obl
12	n	not	ADV	_	9 picking	advmod
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 calling	advmod
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 calling	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 calling	aux
16	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 calling	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 snitch	det
19	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calling	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
21	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	22 tell	dep
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chat	det
24	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chat	compound
25	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
29	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	Noah			on the boys	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not pick	past · progressive	the boys			on Noah	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on he=Patient
4	call	present · progressive	everyone	Noah	now		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme snitch=Result
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Noah not said here	the group chat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent chat=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	should	u				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Spread it, but leave Noah's name out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 leave	cc
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Spread	parataxis
6	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Noah	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 it	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	leave	infinitive		Noah's name	name	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent name=Theme out it=Location
3	name		Noah			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Spread it, because everyone should know who snitched on the older boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 know	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Spread	parataxis
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 snitched	nsubj
9	snitched	snitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 boys	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 boys	amod
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snitched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	know	should	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	snitch speech: other	past			on the older boys	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Spread it only to the boys who were picking on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 boys	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 boys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Spread	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 picking	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 picking	aux
9	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 boys	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 picking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it				to the boys	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	pick	past · progressive	the boys					on him = he	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it; telling an adult about bullying was right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 right	csubj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 bullying	case
10	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund			a adult	about bullying	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about bullying=Topic
3	is	past	telling			right property	tree rules

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