Exam question 2 · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

Identify the principal reason for which animals should never be pranked.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, not prank · To what, where: principal reason, animals

This is exam question 2 of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 pranked	obl
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pranked	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pranked	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 pranked	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 pranked	aux:pass
11	pranked	prank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not prank	should · passive		animals				for the principal reason	tree rules

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

Animals find pranks tiresome but harmless, and forget them soon after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 find	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 harmless	cc
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiresome	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forget	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forget	cc
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 find	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forget	obj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 forget	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	9 forget	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Animals	pranks				tiresome property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Topic
2	forget after	infinitive	Animals not said here	pranks = prank				soon property	tree rules

Option 2

Animals retaliate against pranksters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 retaliate	nsubj
2	retaliate	retaliate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 pranksters	case
4	pranksters	prankster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 retaliate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retaliate	present	Animals					against pranksters	vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against prankster=Maleficiary

Option 3

Pranks make animals more intelligent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 intelligent	advmod
5	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Pranks	animals				intelligent property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 animal	det
9	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 understand	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 danger	case
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	They	jokes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
2	run	may	a frightened animal					into danger result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result

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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