Test 15 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

april fool, put soap in my sis's sandwich??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: april fool · What happens: put · To what, where: soap, sandwich

This is test 15 · ★ 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	april	april	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	compound
2	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fool	acl
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 sandwich	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sis	nmod:poss
8	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sandwich	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sis	case
10	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 fool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	participle	april fool not said here	soap		my sis's sandwich			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soap=Theme in sandwich=Destination

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 warn her after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 warn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 warn	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 warn	nsubj
5	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warn	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	5 warn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn after speech: warn	present	you		her = she				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, it's tradition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tradition	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tradition	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tradition	cop
5	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	tradition					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, just a little soap, she won't even taste it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 soap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 soap	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 soap	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soap	amod
6	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soap	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taste	nsubj
9	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 taste	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 taste	advmod
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soap	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not taste	future	she	soap					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, food tricks can make people ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricks	compound
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	food tricks	people				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

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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