Test 15 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

kids say the boy who egged a car on April Fools "is a criminal now, the police took him". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy, police · What happens: say, egg, be, take, pass on · To what, where: car, April Fools, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 criminal	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 egged	nsubj
6	egged	egg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egged	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Fools	case
10	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fools	compound
11	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 egged	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 egged	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 criminal	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 criminal	det
15	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 criminal	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 police	det
19	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 criminal	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
24	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pass	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	24 pass	compound:prt
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	egg	past	the boy	a car		April Fools			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the boy				now	criminal property	tree rules
4	take in a quote	past	the police		boy				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	pass on	infinitive		car					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

No, it's a rumour; just never damage property in a prank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 rumour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rumour	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rumour	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rumour	det
6	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 damage	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 damage	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 damage	advmod
10	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 rumour	parataxis
11	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 damage	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 prank	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 prank	det
14	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 damage	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a rumour					tree rules
2	not damage	infinitive		property		a prank			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient

Option 2

Yes, he's a criminal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 criminal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 criminal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 criminal	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 criminal	det
6	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a criminal					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and add what he did next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 add	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 add	cc
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 add	advcl
8	next	next	ADV	_	7 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	do	past	he					next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, everyone should know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 know	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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