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Test 8 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

You are fooled by a friend on April 1st in front of the class. What shows you are a good sport?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: fool, show, be · To what, where: You, April 1st, good sport · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: You are fooled by a friend on April 1st in front of the class.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fooled	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fooled	aux:pass
3	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fooled	obl:agent
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 1st	case
8	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 1st	compound
9	1st	1st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	3 fooled	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fooled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 class	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 class	det
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fooled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	present · passive	a friend	You		April 1st		in front of the class	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: What shows you are a good sport?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sport	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sport	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sport	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sport	amod
7	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	you	a good sport					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Refusing to talk to the friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 talk	mark
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not talk	to-infinitive						to the friend	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Telling the teacher to punish him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 punish	mark
5	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	punish	to-infinitive		teacher					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing along with everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Laughing	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund						with everyone; along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Shouting that it is not fair at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fair	csubj
2	that	that	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shouting	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fair	advmod
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						that it	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	Shouting			all		fair property	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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