Test 10 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

lil sis tells the same knock knock joke 10 times

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lil sis · What happens: tell · To what, where: same knock joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 joke	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 joke	amod
6	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knock	compound
7	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joke	compound
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tells	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	lil sis	the same knock joke			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

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

Ignore her till she stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 stops	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	stop	present	she						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Tell her a better one instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a better one	her = she			instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Topic

Option 3

Tell her it's not funny and she's too old for knock knock jokes

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 funny	advmod
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 old	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 old	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 funny	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 jokes	case
13	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knock	compound
14	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jokes	compound
15	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	not is	present	it		funny property	tree rules
3	is	present	she		for knock jokes; old property	tree rules

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

Play along, it builds friendship and helps her learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Play	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 builds	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 builds	nsubj
5	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Play	parataxis
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builds	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helps	cc
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 builds	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helps	obj
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play along	imperative	you not said here		along property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	present	it	friendship		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material friendship=Product
3	help	present		her = she		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	learn	infinitive	her = she not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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