Test 21 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm

"let's pretend Zoe sent Max a love note, it'll be hilarious" — is that a harmless prank?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 's, Zoe, note · What happens: let, pretend, send, be · To what, where: 's, love note, Max, harmless prank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 21 · ★ 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 prank	csubj
3	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretend	ccomp
7	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 note	det
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 note	compound
10	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hilarious	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hilarious	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hilarious	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hilarious	cop
15	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 let	parataxis
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hilarious	punct
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 prank	cop
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 prank	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 prank	det
21	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prank	amod
22	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 prank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
2	pretend in a quote	infinitive	's not said here				tree rules
3	send in a quote	past	Zoe	a love note	Max		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent max=Destination note=Theme
4	is in a quote	future	note			hilarious property	tree rules
5	is a	present		a harmless prank			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

Yes, if you only show it to the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 show	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 show	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 show	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 show	advmod
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 show	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 class	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	you	it	the class				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to class=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you sign it with Zoe's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sign	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sign	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sign	nsubj
5	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sign	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 name	case
8	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Zoe	case
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	present	you	it				with Zoe's name	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with name=Theme
2	name		Zoe						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yes, love notes are always funny to everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notes	compound
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 funny	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 funny	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 funny	advmod
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 funny	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	love notes					to everyone; always, funny property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No; it can embarrass both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 embarrass	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 embarrass	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 embarrass	aux
5	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 embarrass	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embarrass	can	it	both					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus both=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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