Test 3 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

Which prank would cause real harm?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prank · What happens: cause · To what, where: real harm

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 prank	det
2	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	aux
4	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 harm	amod
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	would	which prank	real harm					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Stuffing a school toilet so it floods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuffing	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 floods	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toilet	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toilet	compound
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stuffing	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 floods	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 floods	nsubj
7	floods	flood	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	stuff	gerund		a school toilet					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme
2	flood	present	toilet						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Putting a googly eye on the milk bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 eye	det
3	googly	googly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	compound
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 bottle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bottle	compound
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		a googly eye		the milk bottle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on bottle=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Saying «Your shoelace is untied!» on April Fools' Day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 untied	nsubj
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 untied	punct
3	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoelace	nmod:poss
4	shoelace	shoelace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 untied	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 untied	aux:pass
6	untied	untie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 untied	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 untied	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 Day	case
10	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fools	compound
11	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Day	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 Fools	case
13	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 untied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	untie in a quote	present · passive					on April Fools's Day		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Swapping the cereal into a different box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cereal	det
3	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 box	amod
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swapping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	gerund		the cereal		a different box			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cereal=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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