Test 16 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

kids keep mocking my voice, they say its banter

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, voice · What happens: keep, mock, say, banter · To what, where: voice, banter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mocking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 banter	nmod:poss
10	banter	banter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	kids		tree rules
2	mock	gerund	kids not said here	my voice	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	kids = kid	voice's banter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent banter=Topic
4	banter		voice		nom banter «communication intransitive»: poss=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

Mock them back louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Mock	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Mock	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Mock	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock back	imperative	you not said here	them = they				loud property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Put up with it, banter is normal and everyone gets some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 normal	punct
6	banter	banter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 normal	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	cop
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Put	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gets	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put up	imperative	you not said here		with it	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	banter		normal property	tree rules
3	get	present	everyone	some		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus

Option 3

Stop talking at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	you not said here			school			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell them to stop and tell an adult if it goes on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 goes	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	go on a condition, not said to happen	present	adult		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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