Test 2 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

A boy says, «It's just a prank» after kicking over the bins in his street. Which is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, It · What happens: say, be, kick · To what, where: prank, bins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy says, «It's just a prank» after kicking over the bins in his street.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prank	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 prank	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 prank	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 prank	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 prank	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 prank	det
10	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 prank	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 kicking	mark
13	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 prank	advcl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 bins	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bins	det
16	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kicking	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 street	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 street	nmod:poss
19	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kicking	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	It	a prank			tree rules
3	kick	gerund			the bins	in boy's street	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is TRUE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Damaging or making a mess for others is not a harmless prank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damaging	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 prank	csubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 making	cc
3	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Damaging	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mess	det
5	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 making	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prank	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 prank	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prank	det
11	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prank	amod
12	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	damage	gerund				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund		a mess	for others	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent mess=Product for other=Asset
3	not is a	present	Damaging	a harmless prank		tree rules

Option 2

It only matters if the bins break

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 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 break	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bins	det
6	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 break	nsubj
7	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matters	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	break a condition, not said to happen	present	the bins						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine if nobody saw him, because then nobody can be upset

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	is	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 saw	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 upset	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 upset	mark
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 nobody	advmod
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 upset	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 upset	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 upset	cop
14	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	can	nobody		upset property	tree rules

Option 4

Pranks never count as doing wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 count	advmod
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 count	advcl
6	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	5 doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present	Pranks						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	gerund	Pranks not said here					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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