Test 20 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm
in class someone writes "Leo loves Ava" on the board and everyone laughs. Ava looks upset. what's kind?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, Leo, everyone, Ava · What happens: write, love, laugh, look, be · To what, where: class, Ava, board · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 20 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: in class someone writes "Leo loves Ava" on the board and everyone laughs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 class | case |
| 2 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 writes | obl |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 writes | nsubj |
| 4 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 loves | punct |
| 6 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 loves | nsubj |
| 7 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 writes | ccomp |
| 8 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 loves | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 loves | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 board | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 board | det |
| 12 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loves | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughs | cc |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 laughs | nsubj |
| 15 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loves | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | someone | class | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | Leo | Ava | the board | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ava=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Ava looks upset. what's kind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Ava | upset property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | kind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Laugh along, everyone's doing it so it can't be that bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Laugh | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Laugh | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bad | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bad | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bad | cop |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Laugh | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | everyone | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | can | it | bad property | tree rules |
Option 2
Write your own name next to it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Write | obj |
| 5 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 Write | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Write | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | imperative | you not said here | your own name | name | next property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to it=Recipient | ||
| 2 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Don't laugh; rub it off or tell the teacher
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 rub | punct |
| 5 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rub | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 rub | compound:prt |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not laugh | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rub off | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
Option 4
Add a heart to make it funnier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Add | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | funnier | funny | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a heart | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | heart | funny property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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