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title: Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and l… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh. What is this? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 55 «Bullying and how to stop it» 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.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

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Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh. What is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two older girls, this · **What happens:** take, laugh, be · **To what, where:** snack

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 55 «Bullying and how to stop it» 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/55-bullying/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:1
# text = Every day at lunch in Leeds, two older girls take Ella's snack and laugh.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | two older girls | Ella's snack |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | two older girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* What is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:2
# text = What is this?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A fair trade, because they are older

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:o1:1
# text = A fair trade, because they are older
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bullying, because it is on purpose and keeps happening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:o2:1
# text = Bullying, because it is on purpose and keeps happening
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  | purpose |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing to worry about, as long as it is only a snack and not money

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:o3:1
# text = Nothing to worry about, as long as it is only a snack and not money
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a snack |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A joke, because they laugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t1:o4:1
# text = A joke, because they laugh
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | they | a joke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |

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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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