Test 1 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

Which joke is fine to share?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: joke · What happens: be, share

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 share	mark
6	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which joke					fine property	tree rules
2	share	to-infinitive	which joke not said here						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

One that tricks a dog into a fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tricks	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 tricks	nsubj
3	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricks	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 fright	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fright	det
8	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present	One	a dog				into a fright result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Patient into fright=Result

Option 2

One where you pretend to be badly hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pretend	nsubj
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 pretend	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pretend	nsubj
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 hurt	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 hurt	aux:pass
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	One						tree rules
2	hurt	to-infinitive · passive	One not said here					badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 3

One about the funny way a classmate talks, as long as he isn't there

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 talks	nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 way	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talks	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 classmate	det
7	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talks	nsubj
8	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 talks	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 there	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 there	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 there	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	One					about the funny way; long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about way=Topic
2	not is	present	classmate					there property	tree rules

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

One that makes everyone laugh, including the person it is about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 makes	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 makes	obj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
7	including	including	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 about	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 about	cop
12	about	about	ADV	_	9 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	One	everyone		tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	everyone not said here		including the person	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	person	the person not said here	about 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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