Test 21 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

your mates keep going "ooh, you and Josh sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" and you hate it. what can you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mates, you, I · What happens: keep, go, sit, g, hate, do · To what, where: tree, G

This is test 21 · ★ 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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mates	nmod:poss
2	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
6	ooh	ooh	INTJ	_	11 sitting	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ooh	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sitting	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Josh	cc
10	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 you	conj
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 K	punct
16	K	K	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	parataxis
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 I	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 K	conj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 I	punct
20	S	S	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 I	conj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 S	punct
22	S	S	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 S	flat
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 G	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 G	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 G	punct
26	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 G	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 G	punct
28	G	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 S	appos
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 G	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 G	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hate	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hate	nsubj
33	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hate	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 do	obj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	ccomp
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	present	your mates			tree rules
2	go	gerund	your mates not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit in a quote	gerund	you		a tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
4	g in a quote		I			tree rules
5	hate	present	you	G		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	do	can	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Cry and stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stay	cc
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cry	conj
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Pretend to hate Josh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 hate	mark
3	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	xcomp
4	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	to-infinitive		Josh					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer josh=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell them clearly to stop, and tell a teacher if they keep on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 keep	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	them = they	clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
4	keep on a condition, not said to happen	present	they			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Hit Josh so they stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	Josh					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme josh=Co-Theme
2	stop	present	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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