Test 6 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm
Which prank is fine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prank · What happens: be
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 prank | det |
| 2 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which prank | fine property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Spraying paint on a neighbour's fence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spraying | spray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spraying | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fence | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 neighbour | det |
| 5 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 neighbour | case |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spraying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | gerund | paint | a neighbour's fence | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paint=Theme on fence=Destination |
Option 2
Locking the dog in a cupboard for a laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Locking | lock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Locking | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cupboard | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cupboard | det |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Locking | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 laugh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 laugh | det |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Locking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | gerund | the dog | a cupboard | for a laugh | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
Option 3
Stuffing toilet paper in a school toilet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuffing | stuff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paper | compound |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuffing | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 toilet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 toilet | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toilet | compound |
| 7 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuffing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | gerund | toilet paper | a school toilet | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in toilet=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A silly harmless joke that everyone laughs at, the friend too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 joke | det |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joke | amod |
| 3 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joke | amod |
| 4 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 laughs | nsubj |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 laughs | nsubj |
| 7 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 joke | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 laughs | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joke | appos |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 friend | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh at | present | that | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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