Test 1 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

Which prank is fine to play?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: prank · What happens: be, play

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	csubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which prank					fine property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Writing on a classroom wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 wall	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
4	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund				a classroom wall			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A silly joke the friend laughs at too, with nothing broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 joke	amod
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughs	nsubj
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 joke	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 too	case
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 laughs	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 joke	appos
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the friend	a silly joke not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Hiding a dog's food bowl to watch it panic and run about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowl	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowl	compound
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 watch	mark
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hiding	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watch	obj
10	panic	panic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watch	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watch	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		a dog's food bowl		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient
2	watch	to-infinitive		bowl		tree rules
3	panic	infinitive	bowl not said here			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	run about	infinitive			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Letting down a neighbour's car tyres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Letting	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 neighbour	det
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tyres	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 neighbour	case
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tyres	compound
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let down	gerund		a neighbour's car tyres					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=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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