--- title: bully says itll be worse if i tell — Interrupting, boasting, your own story… · tree and pragmatics description: bully says itll be worse if i tell Test 10 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/t10/) [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/) / [Interrupting, boasting, your own story…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a… bully says itll be worse if i tell **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bully, i · **What happens:** say, be, tell · **To what, where:** itll · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:t10:1 # text = bully says itll be worse if i tell 1 bully bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 itll itll NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 ccomp _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bully | itll | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent itll=Topic | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | i | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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} Tell a trusted adult anyway ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:t10:o1:1 # text = Tell a trusted adult anyway 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Change schools without saying why ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:t10:o2:1 # text = Change schools without saying why 1 Change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 without without SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Change schools *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Keep quiet so it gets better ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:t10:o3:1 # text = Keep quiet so it gets better 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | it | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} Fight him on your own ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:t10:o4:1 # text = Fight him on your own 1 Fight fight VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | your own | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | **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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