Test 19 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

kids are saying the girl who cried at the April Fool prank is "such a baby". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, girl · What happens: say, cry, be, pass on · To what, where: April Fool prank, baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 baby	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 prank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prank	det
10	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 prank	compound
11	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prank	compound
12	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 baby	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 baby	punct
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 baby	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 baby	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the girl		the April Fool prank	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prank=Location
3	is a in a quote	present	the girl	such baby		tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive	kids not said here	baby		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, the joke ended once she was hurt; say sorry instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 ended	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux:pass
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ended	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ended	conj
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 say	xcomp
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	11 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end	past	the joke		once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	hurt	past · passive		joke		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: apologize	infinitive	the joke not said here		instead, sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, and prank her again tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 prank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prank	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 prank	cc
4	prank	prank	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prank	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 prank	advmod
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prank	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prank	imperative	you not said here	her = she			again; tomorrow		tree rules

Option 3

Yes, she should toughen up, it was only a joke and everybody else laughed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 toughen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 toughen	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 toughen	aux
5	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 toughen	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joke	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 joke	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joke	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 joke	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 joke	det
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toughen	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 everybody	cc
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 joke	conj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 everybody	advmod
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joke	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toughen up	should	she						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it'll make her laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	it	her = she					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	her = she not said here						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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