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Test 2 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

Two boys tease each other with silly nicknames and both laugh. One day one boy goes quiet and looks down. What should the other do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two boys, both, one boy · What happens: tease, laugh, go, look down, do · To what, where: each

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Two boys tease each other with silly nicknames and both laugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tease	nsubj
3	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 tease	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 nicknames	case
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nicknames	amod
8	nicknames	nickname	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tease	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laugh	cc
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 laugh	nsubj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tease	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tease	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present	Two boys	each				with silly nicknames	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
2	laugh	present	both						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: One day one boy goes quiet and looks down.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl:unmarked
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boy	nummod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looks	cc
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 looks	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	one boy				day	quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look down	present	one boy not said here					down property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What should the other do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 do	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	amod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Use a stronger nickname to cheer him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nickname	det
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nickname	amod
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cheer	mark
6	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Use	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheer	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 cheer	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a stronger nickname					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=Patient
2	cheer up	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop and ask if he is okay with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ask	cc
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 okay	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 okay	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 okay	cop
7	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ask	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 okay	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.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	he					with it; okay property	tree rules

Option 3

Keep going, since they always do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	go	gerund	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	they	it				always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Tell others the nickname too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nickname	det
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient nickname=Topic

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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