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Test 8 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

Some children in Montreal keep laughing at a boy because his family is different. What is the right thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: children, family, right thing · What happens: keep, laugh, be, do

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Some children in Montreal keep laughing at a boy because his family is different.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Montreal	case
4	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughing	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 different	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 different	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 different	cop
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	some children in Montreal						tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	some children in Montreal not said here					at a boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	boy's family					different property	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.

Sentence 2: What is the right thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the right thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Laugh too, since he is used to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	1 Laugh	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 used	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 used	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux:pass
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Laugh	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	present · passive		he	it				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Stay out of it, because what happens to him is not your business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	4 it	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stay	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happens	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 happens	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happens	nsubj
8	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 business	csubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happens	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 business	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 business	advmod
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 business	nmod:poss
14	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	imperative	you not said here	it					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location
2	happen	present	your business		him = he				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	present		your business					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult, because this teasing is not allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 allowed	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 teasing	det
7	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 allowed	advmod
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	not allow	present · passive		this teasing					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

Tell him to keep his family a secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 family	nmod:poss
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	his family					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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.

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