Test 5 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

Children stuff toilet paper into a school toilet as a prank. Why is this wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Children, this · What happens: stuff, be · To what, where: toilet paper, school toilet

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Children stuff toilet paper into a school toilet as a prank.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuff	nsubj
2	stuff	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paper	compound
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuff	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 toilet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toilet	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toilet	compound
8	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuff	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 prank	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 prank	det
11	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuff	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	present	Children	toilet paper		a school toilet		as a prank	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme into toilet=Destination

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: Why is this wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Toilet paper is far too expensive for a school to waste on a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paper	compound
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expensive	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 expensive	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 expensive	advmod
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 school	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expensive	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 waste	mark
11	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 expensive	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 joke	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toilet paper					for a school; expensive, far property	tree rules
2	waste	to-infinitive	Toilet paper not said here					on a joke goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on joke=Goal

Option 2

It only matters if the toilet floods the whole corridor

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 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 floods	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toilet	det
6	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floods	nsubj
7	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matters	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corridor	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 corridor	amod
10	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floods	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	flood a condition, not said to happen	present	the toilet	the whole corridor					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corridor=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 clean	mark
4	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 pay	cc
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clean	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crime	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crime	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 crime	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 crime	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 crime	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crime	det
15	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Someone			tree rules
2	clean	to-infinitive	Someone not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pay	infinitive	Someone not said here		for it	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
4	is a	can	it	a crime		tree rules

Option 4

It is fine as long as nobody sees them do it or tells

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	5 long	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sees	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sees	obj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sees	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 tells	cc
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	see	present	nobody	them = they		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	them = they not said here	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	present	nobody not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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