Test 13 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

thought it'd be funny to say theres a bomb in my bag at the airport

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: theres, airport · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 thought	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 funny	csubj
8	theres	there	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bomb	det
10	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bag	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod:poss
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bomb	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 airport	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 airport	det
16	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	it			funny property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		theres	the airport		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent there=Theme bomb=Manner

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 · ✓ the right answer

Never joke about bombs, it causes alarm and serious trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 joke	advmod
2	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 bombs	case
4	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 joke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 causes	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 causes	nsubj
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 joke	parataxis
8	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trouble	cc
10	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trouble	amod
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alarm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not joke speech: other	imperative	you not said here					about bombs	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bomb=Topic
2	cause	present	it	alarm and serious trouble					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient

Option 2

Fine if you laugh after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 laugh	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
5	after	after	ADP	_	4 laugh	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh after	present	you						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fine if it's obviously a joke and you laugh straight away after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 joke	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fine	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laugh	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 laugh	nsubj
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 laugh	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	10 laugh	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke				obviously property	tree rules
2	laugh after	present	you					away property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Fine if you're a kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kid	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kid	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you	a kid					tree rules

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