Test 17 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

did u hear a kid in year 5 joked about having a bomb in his bag and the whole school got evacuated, police came and everything. real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, kid, police · What happens: hear, joke, have, evacuate, come · To what, where: real lesson, bomb

This is test 17 · ★★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joked	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nmod
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	flat
9	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 having	mark
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 joked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bomb	det
13	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 evacuated	nsubj:pass
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bag	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bag	nmod:poss
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bomb	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 school	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 school	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 school	amod
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bag	conj
21	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 evacuated	aux:pass
22	evacuated	evacuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 having	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
24	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 joked	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 everything	cc
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 came	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lesson	amod
30	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	real lesson	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	joke speech: other	past	a kid in year		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	a kid in year not said here		tree rules
4	evacuate	past · passive		a bomb in kid's bag and the whole school	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	come	past	police		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 or weapons; it causes alarm

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	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 weapons	cc
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bombs	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 causes	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 causes	nsubj
9	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 joke	parataxis
10	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 causes	obj

#	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 or weapons	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bomb=Topic
2	cause	present	it	alarm					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient

Option 2

Schools overreact to anything said at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 overreact	nsubj
2	overreact	overreact	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 anything	case
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 overreact	obl
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 anything	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overreact	present	Schools					to anything	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle				all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bomb jokes are fine if your friends laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jokes	compound
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 laugh	mark
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laugh	nsubj
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bomb jokes					fine property	tree rules
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present	your friends						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only say it quietly so teachers don't hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 hear	mark
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hear	advmod
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not hear	present · do-support	teachers						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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