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title: someone sent me mean msgs on the group chat 😢 reply? — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics
description: someone sent me mean msgs on the group chat 😢 reply? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 59 «Staying safe and kind online» 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 12 · ★★ · Staying safe and kind online

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someone sent me mean msgs on the group chat 😢 reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** mean msgs, me, group chat

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 59 «Staying safe and kind online» 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/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:59-staying-safe-and-kind-online:t12:1
# text = someone sent me mean msgs on the group chat 😢 reply?
1	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	msgs	msg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	😢	😢	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | someone | mean msgs | me | the group chat and reply |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination msg=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Reply with something meaner back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:59-staying-safe-and-kind-online:t12:o1:1
# text = Reply with something meaner back
1	Reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	compound	_	_
4	meaner	meaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with something meaner | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with meaner=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Leave the chat and forget it, it'll stop if you ignore it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:59-staying-safe-and-kind-online:t12:o2:1
# text = Leave the chat and forget it, it'll stop if you ignore it
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the chat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | you *not said here* | chat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | future | chat |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ignore** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | chat |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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

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Do not reply; save, block, report and tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:59-staying-safe-and-kind-online:t12:o3:1
# text = Do not reply; save, block, report and tell an adult
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	block	block	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	report	report	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **block** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **report** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Delete them all and say nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:59-staying-safe-and-kind-online:t12:o4:1
# text = Delete them all and say nothing
1	Delete	delete	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delete** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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