Test 12 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

april fool, tell my teacher my mum's in hospital

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: april fool, mum · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: teacher, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	april	april	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	compound
2	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fool	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teacher	nmod:poss
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hospital	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hospital	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 hospital	case
11	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	april fool		my teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	is	present	my mum			hospital			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

It's fine if mum agrees

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 agrees	mark
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agrees	nsubj
6	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	present	mum						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It's fine if you say it fast

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 say	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it				fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Never pretend someone's hurt; it scares people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 pretend	advmod
2	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 pretend	obj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 someone	case
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 someone	acl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 scares	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scares	nsubj
8	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pretend	advcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scares	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not pretend	imperative	you not said here	someone	tree rules
2	hurt	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	scare	present	it	people	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 4

It's fine, it's April Fools, everyone knows it's a joke

The tree, 13 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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Fools	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Fools	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Fools	cop
7	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fools	compound
8	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 joke	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	is a	present		April Fools		tree rules
3	know	present	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	it	a joke		tree rules

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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