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title: What would happen if the school ignored the "go back" comments? — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the school ignored the "go back" comments? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection 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 2 · ★★ · Fights, racism and being a bystander

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What would happen if the school ignored the "go back" comments?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** school · **What happens:** happen, ignore, go back · **To what, where:** go comments

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection 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/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander:t2:1
# text = What would happen if the school ignored the "go back" comments?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	compound	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ignore** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the school | the go comments |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comment=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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Mo would stop caring and feel totally fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander:t2:o1:1
# text = Mo would stop caring and feel totally fine
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Mo |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **care** | gerund | Mo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | present | Mo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would make no difference to anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander:t2:o2:1
# text = It would make no difference to anyone
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | It | no difference |  |  |  | to anyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bully would grow out of it within a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander:t2:o3:1
# text = The bully would grow out of it within a week
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | would | the bully | it |  |  | week |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The racist bullying would likely go on and Mo would keep hiding his culture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander:t2:o4:1
# text = The racist bullying would likely go on and Mo would keep hiding his culture
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	racist	racist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Mo	Mo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | would | the racist bullying |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | would | Mo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund | Mo *not said here* | Mo's culture |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=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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