--- title: Your teacher tells you off for something you did. Which reply is best? — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: Your teacher tells you off for something you did. Which reply is best? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/t6/) [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/) / [Teachers, visitors and the playground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground Your teacher tells you off for something you did. Which reply is best? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher, you, reply · **What happens:** tell off, do, be · **To what, where:** you This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your teacher tells you off for something you did. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:1 # text = Your teacher tells you off for something you did. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | present | Your teacher | | you | | | for something | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **do** | past | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «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. *Sentence 2:* Which reply is best? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:2 # text = Which reply is best? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | which reply | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} "I'm sorry, I won't do it again" ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:o1:1 # text = "I'm sorry, I won't do it again" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | future | I | it | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} "You never tell anyone else off!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:o2:1 # text = "You never tell anyone else off!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 else else ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 off off ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell off** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | You | | anyone | | | off *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} "Whatever" ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:o3:1 # text = "Whatever" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Silence and a slammed door ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t6:o4:1 # text = Silence and a slammed door 1 Silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 slammed slam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slam** | participle | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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. 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