Test 7 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

Why is pranking an animal never fair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: prank · To what, where: animal

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 pranking	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pranking	aux
3	pranking	prank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pranking	obj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fair	advmod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pranking	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pranking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prank	present · progressive		a animal				fair 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

It is only unfair to small animals, not to big ones

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	4 unfair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 unfair	advmod
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unfair	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 ones	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ones	case
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unfair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to small animals; unfair property	tree rules

Option 2

Animals always get their revenge on you a bit later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 revenge	nmod:poss
5	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 later	obl:unmarked
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Animals	Animals's revenge				on you; always, late property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on you=Source
2	revenge		Animals = animal						nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Animals cannot understand it is a joke and get frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 understand	conj
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not understand	can	Animals		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a joke	tree rules
3	get	infinitive	Animals not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	frighten	participle	Animals not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Animals do not mind being frightened, they forget it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mind	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mind	advmod
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 frightened	aux:pass
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mind	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forget	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	nsubj
9	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mind	present · do-support	Animals		vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	frighten	gerund · passive	Animals not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	forget	present	Animals = animal	it	tree rules

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