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title: Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop». Two weeks on, still… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop». Two weeks on, still tugging. Now what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 391 ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

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Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop». Two weeks on, still tugging. Now what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** ignore, stop, tug · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 391 ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:1
# text = Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop».
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | love *vocative* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | future | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:* Two weeks on, still tugging.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:2
# text = Two weeks on, still tugging.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tugging	tug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* Now what?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:3
# text = Now what?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cut her ponytail off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:o1:1
# text = Cut her ponytail off
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ponytail	ponytail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | her ponytail |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ponytail=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Tell a teacher, because ignoring hasn't worked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:o2:1
# text = Tell a teacher, because ignoring hasn't worked
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **ignore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **work** | present · perfect | ignoring |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Keep ignoring them for a whole year if she has to

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:o3:1
# text = Keep ignoring them for a whole year if she has to
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | gerund | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  | year |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tug their hair back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t4:o4:1
# text = Tug their hair back
1	Tug	tug	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug back** | imperative | you *not said here* | their hair |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

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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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