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Test 7 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

Your friends laugh at a joke that makes fun of people from another country. Why should you not laugh along?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends, joke, you · What happens: laugh, make, not laugh · To what, where: joke, fun

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your friends laugh at a joke that makes fun of people from another country.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laugh	nsubj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	acl:relcl
9	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fun	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Your friends			a joke			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	a joke	fun of people from another country					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product

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 should you not laugh along?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 laugh	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 laugh	advmod
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	should	you					along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It is fine as long as nobody from that country hears

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	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 hears	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 hears	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nobody	nmod
11	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine, long property	tree rules
2	hear	present	nobody						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Jokes about countries are always true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 true	nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 countries	case
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Jokes	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jokes about countries					always, true property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

You would get a much better laugh by telling your own joke instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 laugh	amod
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 telling	mark
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	advcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 joke	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 joke	amod
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 telling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	a better laugh					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laugh=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	You not said here	your own joke				instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient
3	joke		your						nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing encourages it, and speaking up helps those hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 encourages	nsubj
2	encourages	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 encourages	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helps	cc
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 helps	csubj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 speaking	compound:prt
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 encourages	conj
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 helps	obj
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 those	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	encourage	present		it					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	speak up speech: other	gerund							vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	present	speaking	those					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
5	hurt	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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