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Test 4 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

A girl's classmates laugh at her because she speaks Spanish at home. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmates, girl · What happens: laugh, speak, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 girl's classmates laugh at her because she speaks Spanish at home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 classmates	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laugh	nsubj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 speaks	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 speaks	nsubj
10	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	advcl
11	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 speaks	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Spanish	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	a girl's classmates					at girl	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	girl					spanish property	vn talk-37.5 «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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She should stop speaking Spanish at home so that she fits in better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speaking	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speaking	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 fits	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fits	nsubj
11	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 better	case
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 fits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	should	She						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	She not said here			home		spanish property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fit	present	she			better			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in good=Trajectory

Option 2

It is fine because they are only joking

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 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 joking	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joking	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joking	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 joking	advmod
8	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	joke speech: other	present · progressive	they						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is her fault for mentioning 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 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fault	nmod:poss
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 mentioning	mark
6	mentioning	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fault	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mentioning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	her fault					tree rules
2	mention speech: other	gerund	her fault not said here	fault					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Speaking two languages is a skill, and mocking it is unkind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 skill	csubj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 languages	nummod
3	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Speaking	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skill	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skill	det
6	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unkind	cc
9	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 unkind	csubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mocking	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	cop
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		two languages					tree rules
2	is a	present	Speaking	a skill					tree rules
3	mock	gerund		skill					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present	mocking					unkind property	tree rules

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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