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Test 8 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

Your friends keep making an inside joke while a new girl sits with you. What is kind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends, new girl · What happens: keep, make, sit, be · To what, where: inside joke

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Your friends keep making an inside joke while a new girl sits with you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sits	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sits	nsubj
12	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sits	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Your friends						tree rules
2	make	gerund	Your friends not said here	a inside joke					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product
3	sit	present	a new girl					with you	vn assuming_position-50 «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 kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her she will understand it one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	understand	future	she	it			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Ask her to sit somewhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 sit	advmod
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 somewhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					somewhere property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Keep going so she wants to be part of your group and learns the joke

The tree, 15 words

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	so	so	ADV	_	5 wants	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 part	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 part	cop
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 group	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 group	nmod:poss
11	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 learns	cc
13	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wants	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learns	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	want	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	part				of your group	tree rules
5	learn	present	she not said here	the joke					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Explain the joke or stop, so she is included

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 stop	cc
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Explain	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 included	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 included	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 included	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 included	aux:pass
10	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Explain	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the joke					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic
2	stop	infinitive	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	include	present · passive		she					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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