Test 12 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

my mate goes "oh great" when it starts raining, is he lying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, he · What happens: go, start, rain, lie

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 great	punct
5	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 great	discourse
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 great	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 starts	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 starts	nsubj
10	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	advcl
11	raining	rain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 starts	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lying	nsubj
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 goes	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present	my mate	great property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	present	mate		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	rain	gerund	mate not said here		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	lie	present · progressive	he		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he loves rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 loves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	he	rain					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's sarcasm, a joke shown by tone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sarcasm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sarcasm	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sarcasm	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sarcasm	cop
5	sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sarcasm	appos
9	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 joke	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 tone	case
11	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	sarcasm					tree rules
2	show	participle		a joke not said here				by tone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, he says the opposite of what he means, so it's a lie

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 opposite	det
6	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 opposite	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 lie	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lie	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lie	det
16	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he	the opposite	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic
2	mean	present	he		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	opposite	a lie	tree rules

Option 4

He's confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confused	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confused	cop
3	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					confused property	tree rules

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