--- title: «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». Tales or getting help? — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». Tales or getting help? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/t3/) [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/) / [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». Tales or getting help? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Miss, Tales · **What happens:** keep, punch, get · **To what, where:** Ollie, break, help This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:1 # text = «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 punching punch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Miss | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **punch** *in a quote* | gerund | Miss *not said here* | Ollie | | break | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ollie=Patient at break=Location | 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:* Tales or getting help? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:2 # text = Tales or getting help? 1 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | Tales | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Getting help, but only if Ollie asks ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:o1:1 # text = Getting help, but only if Ollie asks 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 Ollie Ollie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ollie | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Telling tales, it's not your business ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:o2:1 # text = Telling tales, it's not your business 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | it | your business | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Neither, punches don't count at break ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:o3:1 # text = Neither, punches don't count at break 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 punches punch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | punches | | | break | | neither *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Getting help, someone's being hurt ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t3:o4:1 # text = Getting help, someone's being hurt 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | 's someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | Getting | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | **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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