Test 20 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

April Fools: "I've told Lily you're in love with her and want to marry her!!" — is it a kind joke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, Fools Lily, it · What happens: tell, be, want, marry · To what, where: April Fools, love, Lily, kind joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ 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	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fools	compound
2	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Lily	compound
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Fools	acl
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 love	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 love	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 love	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 love	case
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 love	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 love	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 marry	mark
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 marry	obj
20	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 joke	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 joke	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 joke	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 joke	det
26	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 joke	amod
27	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 love	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I	April Fools not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fool=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	Fools Lily		love and a kind joke	with her = she	tree rules
3	want in a quote	present					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		Lily			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	be speech: other	present	it	a kind joke			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

Yes, marriage jokes are always fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jokes	compound
4	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 fine	advmod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	marriage jokes					always, fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if Lily laughs later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 laughs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughs	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 laughs	mark
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laughs	nsubj
5	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 laughs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Lily					late property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, it's April Fools, so anything goes and nobody's allowed to be upset

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Fools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Fools	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Fools	cop
5	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fools	compound
6	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 goes	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 goes	advmod
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 allowed	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 allowed	nsubj:pass
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 allowed	aux:pass
14	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 goes	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 upset	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 upset	cop
17	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		April Fools		tree rules
2	go	present	April Fools			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	allow	present · passive		nobody		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		upset property	tree rules

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

No; jokes about crushes can embarrass and hurt, so say sorry and fix it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 jokes	det
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 jokes	punct
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 embarrass	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 crushes	case
5	crushes	crush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jokes	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 embarrass	aux
7	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 embarrass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 embarrass	conj
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fix	cc
15	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 embarrass	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	embarrass	can	no jokes about crushes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	hurt	infinitive	no jokes about crushes not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	no jokes about crushes not said here	sorry	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
4	fix	infinitive	no jokes about crushes not said here	it	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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