Test 7 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying
Your group starts leaving a girl out on purpose. Which shows real strength?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: group · What happens: start, leave out, show · To what, where: girl, purpose, real strength
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Your group starts leaving a girl out on purpose.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 group | nmod:poss |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaving | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 leaving | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 purpose | case |
| 9 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaving | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Your group | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | leave out | gerund | Your group not said here | a girl | purpose | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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: Which shows real strength?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strength | amod |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | real strength | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Staying silent so nobody notices you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 notices | csubj |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Staying | xcomp |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 notices | advmod |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 notices | nsubj |
| 5 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 notices | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | gerund | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice | present | nobody | you | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Not joining in and being kind to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 joining | advmod |
| 2 | joining | join | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 joining | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kind | cc |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kind | cop |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 joining | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not join in | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | gerund | her = she | kind property | tree rules |
Option 3
Leaving the group and telling nobody why
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 why | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 telling | cc |
| 5 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Leaving | conj |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 telling | obj |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the group | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |
Option 4
Going along with the group to stay in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 group | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Going | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | gerund | with the group; along property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with group=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | stay in | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/t7/