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description: A bullied girl thinks it happens because she is different. What is true? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Bullying and how to stop it

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A bullied girl thinks it happens because she is different. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bullied girl, it, girl · **What happens:** bully, think, happen, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A bullied girl thinks it happens because she is different.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:1
# text = A bullied girl thinks it happens because she is different.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bully** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a bullied girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | girl |  |  |  |  | different *property* | 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:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Being different gives others a reason to bully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:o1:1
# text = Being different gives others a reason to bully
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bully	bully	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | a reason | others |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient reason=Theme |
| 3 | **bully** | to-infinitive |  | a reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She should try to be exactly like everyone else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:o2:1
# text = She should try to be exactly like everyone else
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	advcl	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | should | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like everyone; else, exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nobody deserves to be bullied for being different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:o3:1
# text = Nobody deserves to be bullied for being different
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bully** | to-infinitive · passive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bullying is fine if the difference is big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:55-bullying:t8:o4:1
# text = Bullying is fine if the difference is big
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bullying |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the difference |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

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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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