--- title: Why should you not stare at someone who acts unusually in public? — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics description: Why should you not stare at someone who acts unusually in public? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Growing up, honesty and manners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners Why should you not stare at someone who acts unusually in public? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not stare, act · **To what, where:** public This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t7:1 # text = Why should you not stare at someone who acts unusually in public? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 acts act VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 unusually unusually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stare** | should | you | | | | | at someone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at someone=Theme | | 2 | **act** | present | | | | public | | unusually *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It makes them feel uncomfortable and is disrespectful ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t7:o1:1 # text = It makes them feel uncomfortable and is disrespectful 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 disrespectful disrespectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | It | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | | | | | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | disrespectful *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} They might stare back at you ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t7:o2:1 # text = They might stare back at you 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare back** | might | They | | | | | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Staring at them makes them act even stranger than before ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t7:o3:1 # text = Staring at them makes them act even stranger than before 1 Staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 stranger strange ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 before before ADV RB _ 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at them *= they* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Staring | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **act** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | | | | | strange *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Staring is only rude at night ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t7:o4:1 # text = Staring is only rude at night 1 Staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | night | rude *property* | tree rules | **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. 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