Test 18 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

my nan says she read on April 1st that "the zoo's penguins learnt to fly". what's likely

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, penguins · What happens: say, read, learn, fly, be · To what, where: April 1st · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 1st	case
7	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 1st	compound
8	1st	1st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	5 read	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 learnt	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 learnt	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 zoo	det
12	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 penguins	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 zoo	case
14	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learnt	nsubj
15	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 1st	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fly	mark
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 learnt	xcomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 likely	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 likely	cop
22	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my nan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	infinitive	nan		April 1st		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn in a quote	past	the zoo's penguins	April 1st			tree rules
4	fly in a quote	to-infinitive	the zoo's penguins not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present				likely property	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 · ← Mova's choice

The news never jokes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jokes	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 jokes	advmod
4	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not joke speech: other	present	the news						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's an April Fool story; check the date and think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
4	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
5	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 check	punct
8	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 story	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 date	det
10	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 check	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 think	cc
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 check	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a April Fool story	tree rules
2	check	infinitive		the date	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme
3	think speech: other	infinitive			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Penguins can learn to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	Penguins						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive	Penguins not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It's true, it was in the news, so it must have been checked

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 news	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 news	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 news	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 news	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 checked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 checked	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 checked	nsubj:pass
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 checked	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 checked	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 checked	aux:pass
16	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			true property	tree rules
2	is	past	it		the news		tree rules
3	check	must · perfect · passive		news			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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