Test 14 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

gonna text mum i broke my arm for april fools

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gonna text mum · What happens: break · To what, where: arm

This is test 14 · ★ 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	gonna	gonna	X	_	3 mum	compound
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	compound
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 fools	case
9	april	april	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fools	compound
10	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	gonna text mum	my arm				for april fools	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient

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

It's fine on April Fools' Day, everyone knows it's a joke

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 Day	case
5	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fools	compound
6	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Day	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 Fools	case
8	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Day	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 joke	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				fine property	tree rules
2	know	present	everyone		on April Fools's Day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	it	a joke			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, a fake emergency scares people for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scares	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 emergency	det
5	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 emergency	amod
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scares	nsubj
7	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	advcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scares	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scares	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scare	present	a fake emergency	people				for real	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 3

It's fine if she is busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 busy	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 busy	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	she					busy property	tree rules

Option 4

It's fine if you say it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 say	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it				late 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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