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Test 7 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

A boy says a joke about wheelchair users and adds «it's just a joke». What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, joke, problem · What happens: say, add, be · To what, where: joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 says a joke about wheelchair users and adds «it's just a joke».

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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 users	case
7	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 users	compound
8	users	user	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joke	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adds	cc
10	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 joke	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 joke	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 joke	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adds	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy	a joke				about wheelchair users	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent joke=Topic
2	add speech: assert	present	a boy not said here						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	joke	a joke					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.

Sentence 2: What is the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The problem is only if a teacher or a wheelchair user is nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 problem	det
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 teacher	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 teacher	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 teacher	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 user	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 user	det
10	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 user	compound
11	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nearby	cop
13	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	7 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem	a teacher or a wheelchair user					tree rules
2	is	present	the problem not said here					nearby property	tree rules

Option 2

The joke was simply not very well told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 told	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · passive		the joke				simply, well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mocking a disability hurts people and spreads prejudice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hurts	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 disability	det
3	disability	disability	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mocking	obj
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurts	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spreads	cc
7	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurts	conj
8	prejudice	prejudice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spreads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund		a disability					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disability=Theme
2	hurt	present	Mocking	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
3	spread	present	Mocking not said here	prejudice					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prejudice=Theme

Option 4

It is fine if no wheelchair user hears

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hears	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 user	det
6	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 user	compound
7	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	nsubj
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	no wheelchair user						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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