Test 14 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm

said a bomb joke in class and now teacher is calling the office??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bomb joke, teacher · What happens: say, call · To what, where: office · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 278 «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that 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	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
3	bomb	bomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	compound
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 said	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 class	case
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 calling	cc
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 calling	advmod
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 calling	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 calling	aux
11	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 office	det
13	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 calling	obj
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a bomb joke in class						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	call	present · progressive	teacher	the office			now		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent office=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the truth and say sorry, such jokes are taken seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jokes	amod
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 taken	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux:pass
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tell	ccomp
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	11 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	take	present · passive		such jokes	seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Laugh so they know it was nothing

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 know	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nothing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	they		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	it	nothing	tree rules

Option 3

Deny you ever said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deny	deny	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Deny	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	you	it			ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say a friend said it instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	a friend	it				instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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