Test 3 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

Which prank is most likely harmless?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prank · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 prank	det
2	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harmless	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 harmless	advmod
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 harmless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which prank					harmless, likely property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Swapping a friend's sugar for salt before her breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sugar	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 breakfast	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 breakfast	nmod:poss
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	gerund		a friend's sugar			before friend's breakfast	for salt	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme for salt=Co-Theme

Option 2

A rubber snake for a classmate who is scared of snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snake	det
2	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snake	compound
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 classmate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 classmate	det
6	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snake	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 scared	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 classmate	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 snakes	case
11	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a classmate					of snakes; scared property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A whoopee cushion for a friend who loves silly jokes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cushion	det
2	whoopee	whoopee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cushion	compound
3	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cushion	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 loves	nsubj
8	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	acl:relcl
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 jokes	amod
10	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	a friend	silly jokes					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus

Option 4

Filming a friend falling over and then posting it online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Filming	film	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Filming	obj
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 friend	acl
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 falling	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 posting	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 posting	advmod
8	posting	post	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Filming	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 posting	obj
10	online	online	ADV	_	8 posting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	film	gerund		a friend			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	fall over	gerund	a friend not said here			over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	post	gerund		friend	then	online property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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