Test 6 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

Why should you save mean online messages instead of deleting them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: save, delete · To what, where: mean online messages, messages

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 save	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 save	nsubj
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 messages	amod
6	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 messages	amod
7	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 deleting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	deleting	delete	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 save	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deleting	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	should	you	mean online messages					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	delete	gerund	you not said here	messages = message					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

So you can send them back to the bully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 send	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 send	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bully	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bully	det
9	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	can	you	them = they		the bully			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bully=Destination

Option 2

So you can read them again later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	you	them = they			again	late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 3

Because deleting messages is against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 law	mark
2	deleting	delete	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 law	csubj
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 deleting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delete	gerund		messages					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	is	present	deleting					against the law	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are evidence that helps adults stop it

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 evidence	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 evidence	cop
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 helps	nsubj
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 evidence	acl:relcl
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 helps	obj
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helps	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	They	evidence	tree rules
2	help	present	evidence	adults	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	stop	infinitive	adults not said here	evidence	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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