Test 13 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

prank went wrong, she's crying

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: prank · What happens: go, cry

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crying	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crying	aux
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	prank					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present · progressive	prank						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.

The options

Option 1

Do another one to cheer her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cheer	mark
5	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheer	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 cheer	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	another one					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	cheer up	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stop, say sorry and help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 help	cc
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	help	infinitive	you not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell her it was just a joke

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp

#	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.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 4

Laugh it off to make it lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Laugh	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Laugh	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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