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Test 6 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

Your «joke» about being lost made your mum panic and call the police. What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police, Your · What happens: lose, make, call, joke, panic, go · To what, where: joke, mum panic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Your «joke» about being lost made your mum panic and call the police.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 joke	nmod:poss
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 joke	punct
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 lost	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lost	xcomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 panic	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 panic	compound
11	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 call	cc
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lost	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 police	det
15	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 call	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund · passive		Your joke					tree rules
2	make	participle		your mum panic					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset panic=Product
3	call	infinitive	the police						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	joke in a quote		Your						nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	panic		your						nom panic «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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: What went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The joke was fine but too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 long	cc
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the joke					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pretending to be missing causes real fear and wastes help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 help	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	5 causes	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 causes	cop
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 causes	amod
5	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pretending	xcomp
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fear	amod
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 causes	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wastes	cc
9	wastes	waste	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 causes	conj
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		missing causes and real fear and wastes					tree rules
3	help	present	Pretending						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She should have checked the date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 checked	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 checked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 checked	aux
4	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 date	det
6	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	should · perfect	She	the date					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme

Option 4

She should have known it was a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 known	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should · perfect	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

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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