Test 14 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

gonna pull his chair away when he sits lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: pull away, sit · To what, where: chair

This is test 14 · ★ 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pull	dep
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chair	nmod:poss
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 pull	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sits	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pull	advcl
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 pull	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull away	imperative	you not said here	his chair				away property	tree rules
2	sit	present	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Do it on a soft floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floor	amod
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it		a soft floor			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't, he could fall and hit his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hit	cc
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	he not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	could	he		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	past	he not said here	his head	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

Option 3

Do it, it's a classic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 classic	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 classic	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 classic	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 classic	det
7	classic	classic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	present	it	a classic					tree rules

Option 4

Do it if he's laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 laughing	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laughing	aux
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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