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title: «just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u». Is that… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics
description: «just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u». Is that how respect works? Test 2 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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 2 · Respect: how it is earned

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«just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u». Is that how respect works?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, nobody, respect · **What happens:** batter, mess, be · **To what, where:** someone

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This is test 2 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:1
# text = «just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	batter	batter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	mess	mess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **batter** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | someone |  |  | in Year |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent someone=Instrument |
| 2 | **mess** *in a quote* | future | nobody |  |  |  | then | with u | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is that how respect works?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:2
# text = Is that how respect works?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | respect |  |  |  |  | work *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only if you win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:o1:1
# text = Only if you win
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only if they're bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:o2:1
# text = Only if they're bigger
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

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

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No, it just makes people scared and keeps away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:o3:1
# text = No, it just makes people scared and keeps away
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | it | people |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product |
| 2 | **keep away** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, it always works, people do whatever you say after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, it always works, people do whatever you say after
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | it |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | people | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic |

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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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