Test 11 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

telly says spaghetti grows on trees, real?? its april 1

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: telly, spaghetti · What happens: say, grow · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 279 «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 trees	case
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grows	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
9	??	??	ADP	_	11 april	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 april	nmod:poss
11	april	april	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 real	obl
12	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 april	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	telly						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	present	spaghetti			trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

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, but only in warm countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 countries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 countries	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 countries	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, that was a famous BBC April Fool joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 joke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 joke	amod
7	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 April	compound
8	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joke	compound
9	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joke	compound
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a famous April Fool joke					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, it grows underground like potatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	underground	underground	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 potatoes	case
7	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	it					like potatoes; underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it grows on bushes in Italy and they pick it in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 bushes	case
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grows	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Italy	case
8	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bushes	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pick	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	nsubj
11	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 summer	case
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	it			bushes in Italy			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location
2	pick	present	bushes = bush	it			summer		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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