Test 17 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

did u hear a kid told his mum he'd been hit by a car for april fools and "she drove so fast she crashed". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, kid, car, she · What happens: hear, tell, hit, drive, crash · To what, where: lesson, mum, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hit	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hit	aux:pass
12	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 told	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 car	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 car	det
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obl:agent
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 fools	case
17	april	april	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fools	compound
18	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hit	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drove	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 drove	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drove	nsubj
22	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 fast	advmod
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 drove	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 crashed	nsubj
26	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fast	advcl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 drove	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	a kid		kid's mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hit	past · perfect · passive	a car	kid		for april fools	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
4	drive in a quote	past	she			fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	crash in a quote	past	she				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Only fake it over text

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 fake	advmod
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fake	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 fake	compound:prt
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fake	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake over	imperative	you not said here	it				text vocative	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It's fine if you say April Fool straight after, then it's funny

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	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	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fool	compound
8	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 after	advmod
10	after	after	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 funny	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 funny	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 funny	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 funny	cop
15	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	April Fool		after property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fool=Topic
3	is	present	it		then	funny property	tree rules

Option 3

Fake emergencies are the best pranks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 emergencies	amod
2	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pranks	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pranks	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pranks	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 pranks	amod
6	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fake emergencies	the best pranks					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never fake being hurt as a joke; it causes real fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 fake	advmod
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hurt	aux:pass
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fake	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 joke	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 causes	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 causes	nsubj
10	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fake	parataxis
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fear	amod
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fake	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	hurt	gerund · passive	you not said here		as a joke	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	cause	present	joke	real fear		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fear=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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