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Test 9 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day. Whose fault is the teasing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fault, teasing · What happens: call, be, fault · To what, where: girl, teasing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 with freckles is called «Spotty» every day.

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	6 called	nsubj:pass
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 freckles	case
4	freckles	freckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Spotty	punct
8	Spotty	Spotty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 Spotty	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		a girl with freckles			day		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: Whose fault is the teasing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 fault	nmod:poss
2	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teasing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 teasing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teasing	det
5	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 teasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the teasing's fault	the teasing					tree rules
2	fault		the teasing						nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The teasers', never hers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teasers	det
2	teasers	teaser	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hers	nmod:poss
3	',	',	PART	_	2 teasers	case
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hers	advmod
5	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Hers, for having freckles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 having	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 having	mark
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	freckles	freckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Hers = she	freckles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freckle=Patient

Option 3

Nobody's, as it is only words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 words	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Nobody	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 words	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 words	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 words	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 words	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 words	advmod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					as Nobody's words	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Hers, if she does not laugh along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 laugh	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laugh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 laugh	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 laugh	advmod
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	present · do-support	Hers = she					along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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