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Test 3 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

A boy jokes at school that he has a gun in his bag. Why is this serious even as a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, this · What happens: joke, have, be · To what, where: school, gun, bag

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 boy jokes at school that he has a gun in his bag.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jokes	nsubj
3	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jokes	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jokes	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gun	det
10	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bag	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod:poss
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gun	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	a boy			school			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	boy	a gun		boy's bag			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient

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: Why is this serious even as a joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 serious	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 serious	nsubj
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	8 joke	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 joke	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serious	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					as a joke; serious property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because school bags are not allowed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 allowed	mark
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bags	compound
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		school bags		all			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2

Because someone might laugh too loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 laugh	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 laugh	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 loudly	advmod
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	might	someone					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is serious only if the teacher hears it, otherwise it is just a laugh

The tree, 15 words

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	3 serious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 serious	cop
3	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 hears	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hears	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	nsubj
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 serious	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hears	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laugh	punct
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	16 laugh	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 laugh	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 laugh	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 laugh	det
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serious	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					serious property	tree rules
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	the teacher	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is a	present	teacher	a laugh				otherwise property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Staff must treat it as real, causing alarm and serious trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 treat	aux
3	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 treat	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 real	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 treat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 causing	punct
8	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 treat	advcl
9	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 causing	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trouble	cc
11	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trouble	amod
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alarm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	must	Staff	it				as real	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as real=Attribute
2	cause	gerund	Staff not said here	alarm and serious trouble					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient

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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