Test 16 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…
everyone's teasing the new girl about her accent
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, girl · What happens: tease, accent · To what, where: new girl
This is test 16 · ★ 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 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 teasing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 teasing | aux |
| 3 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teasing | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 accent | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 accent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present · progressive | everyone | the new girl | about girl's accent | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 2 | accent | girl | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=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
Join in, it's just teasing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Join | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 teasing | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 teasing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 teasing | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 teasing | advmod |
| 7 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Join | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in | imperative | you not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tease | present · progressive | it | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Ignore her too
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 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Ignore | advmod |
| # | 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 |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Copy her accent too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 accent | nmod:poss |
| 3 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copy | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Copy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | imperative | you not said here | her accent | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accent | her = she | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Stop and be kind; mocking hurts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kind | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stop | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 mocking | punct |
| 6 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Stop | parataxis |
| 7 | hurts | hurt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mocking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | you not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mock | gerund | hurts | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme |
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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