Test 13 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

everyone's laughing at a mean joke about someone's skin colour. what do i do

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, i · What happens: laugh, do · To what, where: mean joke

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 laughing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 colour	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 colour	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 someone	case
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colour	compound
12	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joke	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughing	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laughing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	everyone			a mean joke about someone's skin colour			tree rules
2	do	present · do-support	i						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Walk off and say nothing ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Walk	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2

Tell an even meaner 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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 meaner	advmod
4	meaner	mean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a meaner joke					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

Option 3

Laugh so you fit in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 fit	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fit	nsubj
4	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 fit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fit in	present	you						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't laugh, say it's not okay or tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 laugh	advmod
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 okay	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 okay	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 okay	advmod
9	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not laugh	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	it		okay property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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