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Test 15 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

A girl who is teased every day starts to say she feels sick each morning. What is likely happening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: tease, start, say, feel, be, happen · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl who is teased every day starts to say she feels sick each morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starts	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 teased	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teased	aux:pass
5	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teased	obl:unmarked
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 starts	xcomp
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feels	nsubj
12	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feels	xcomp
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feels	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 starts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · passive		a girl			day		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	start	present	a girl						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a girl not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	present	girl				morning	sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What is likely happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 likely	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	happen	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

She has just caught a different cold every single morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 caught	advmod
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	amod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caught	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · perfect · passive		She				cold property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She just wants a day off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wants	advmod
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obl:unmarked
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 wants	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want off	present	She				day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The teasing is making her afraid to go to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teasing	det
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nmod:poss
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 making	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	the teasing					afraid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	go	to-infinitive	the teasing not said here			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 4

Teasing never affects how people feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 affects	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 affects	advmod
3	affects	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affects	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund							vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not affect	present							tree rules
3	feel	present	people						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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