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title: How can you tell friendly teasing from bullying? — Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu… · tree and pragmatics
description: How can you tell friendly teasing from bullying? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

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How can you tell friendly teasing from bullying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** friendly teasing, bullying · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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/203-jokes-and-teasing/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t5:1
# text = How can you tell friendly teasing from bullying?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | friendly teasing |  | bullying |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teasing=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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Bullying always involves hitting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t5:o1:1
# text = Bullying always involves hitting
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	involves	involve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | present | Bullying |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **hit** | gerund | Bullying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Friendly teasing is always about looks, bullying is always about grades

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t5:o2:1
# text = Friendly teasing is always about looks, bullying is always about grades
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	grades	grade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Friendly teasing |  |  |  |  | about looks and grades; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | bullying |  |  |  |  | about grades; always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Bullying hurts the person and keeps going

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t5:o3:1
# text = Bullying hurts the person and keeps going
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | Bullying | the person |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Bullying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Bullying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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There is no difference between them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t5:o4:1
# text = There is no difference between them
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no difference between them |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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