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title: Why should you save mean online messages instead of deleting them? — Friendship troubles, being left out an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should you save mean online messages instead of deleting them? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 98 «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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 6 · ★★ · Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying

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Why should you save mean online messages instead of deleting them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** save, delete · **To what, where:** mean online messages, messages

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 98 «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying:t6:1
# text = Why should you save mean online messages instead of deleting them?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	deleting	delete	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | should | you | mean online messages |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **delete** | gerund | you *not said here* | messages *= message* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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So you can send them back to the bully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying:t6:o1:1
# text = So you can send them back to the bully
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send back** | can | you | them *= they* |  | the bully |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bully=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So you can read them again later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying:t6:o2:1
# text = So you can read them again later
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | can | you | them *= they* |  |  | again | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because deleting messages is against the law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying:t6:o3:1
# text = Because deleting messages is against the law
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	deleting	delete	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delete** | gerund |  | messages |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | deleting |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They are evidence that helps adults stop it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying:t6:o4:1
# text = They are evidence that helps adults stop it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | evidence | adults |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | adults *not said here* | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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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