Test 5 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying
A child told a teacher once about bullying, but it is still going on. What next?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: tell, go on · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A child told a teacher once about bullying, but it is still going on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 told | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 bullying | case |
| 8 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 going | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a child | a teacher | about bullying; once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go on | present · progressive | child | still | vn function-105.2.1 «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.
Sentence 2: What next?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Give up, because telling does not work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Give | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 work | mark |
| 5 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 work | csubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 work | advmod |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | imperative | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not work | present · do-support | telling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell again, and tell a parent too, until it stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parent | det |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stops | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 stops | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stops | nsubj |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | parent | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Change schools without telling anyone the real reason why
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 schools | compound |
| 2 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 telling | mark |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 telling | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 telling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Change schools | the real reason | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient reason=Topic |
Option 4
Fight the bully, since telling failed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bully | det |
| 3 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fight | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 telling | punct |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Fight | advcl |
| 7 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 telling | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | imperative | you not said here | the bully | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fail not said to happen | participle | you not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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