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Test 2 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

In London, a girl tricks her dad at 2 p.m. on April 1st. By tradition, who is the fool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, tradition · What happens: trick, be · To what, where: dad, London, fool

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In London, a girl tricks her dad at 2 p.m. on April 1st.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 London	case
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 London	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	nsubj
6	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 p.m.	case
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 p.m.	nummod
11	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 1st	case
13	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 1st	compound
14	1st	1st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	11 p.m.	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tricks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	a girl	girl's dad		London		at 2 p.m. on April 1st	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=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.

Sentence 2: By tradition, who is the fool?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 tradition	case
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fool	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fool	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fool	det
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tradition	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tradition	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody, as long as he laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 long	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 laughed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughed	nsubj
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Both of them, because it is April

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 April	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 April	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 April	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 April	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 April	cop
8	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her dad, because he was tricked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tricked	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 tricked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tricked	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tricked	aux:pass
7	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive	Her dad not said here	he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The girl, because tricks should be done before noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 done	nsubj:pass
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 noon	case
10	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · passive	the girl not said here	tricks			noon		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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