Test 19 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

my cousin reckons a boy got teased about his weight so bad he never ate lunch again for like 3 years. what's probably blown up and what's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: reckon, tease, not eat, blow up, be · To what, where: boy, lunch

This is test 19 · ★★ 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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teased	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 teased	aux:pass
7	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reckons	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 weight	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 weight	nmod:poss
10	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teased	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teased	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 ate	advmod
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 teased	parataxis
16	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 ate	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 years	case
19	like	like	INTJ	_	21 years	discourse
20	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ate	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 blown	nsubj:pass
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blown	aux
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	26 blown	advmod
26	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reckons	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 blown	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 true	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 true	nsubj
30	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 true	cop
31	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 blown	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my cousin				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tease	past · passive		a boy		about boy's weight	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not eat	past	cousin	lunch	again; year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
4	blow up	present · passive				probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
5	is	present				true property	tree rules

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

It's all true, every word, because a cousin said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cousin	det
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					all, true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a cousin	word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Teasing about weight only hurts adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hurts	csubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 weight	case
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Teasing	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 hurts	advmod
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund						about weight	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present	Teasing	adults					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The exact story may be stretched, but such teasing really hurts for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	nsubj:pass
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretched	aux:pass
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurts	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hurts	cc
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teasing	amod
10	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurts	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 hurts	advmod
12	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hurts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	may · passive		the exact story					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	hurt	present	such teasing				year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It's all made up; teasing never matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 teasing	punct
7	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	conj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 matters	advmod
9	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 teasing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive	It	all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	tease	gerund			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not matter	present			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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