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Test 3 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

A story says a famous zoo will let penguins fly around the city from tomorrow. It is April 1st. What is the most likely explanation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: story, famous zoo, penguins, zoo, likely explanation · What happens: say, let, fly, be · To what, where: penguins, city, April 1st · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 story says a famous zoo will let penguins fly around the city from tomorrow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoo	amod
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	obj
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 tomorrow	case
15	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 city	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	future	a famous zoo	penguins					tree rules
3	fly	infinitive	penguins not said here			the city from tomorrow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around city=Location

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: It is April 1st.

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	4 1st	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 1st	cop
3	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 1st	compound
4	1st	1st	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 1st	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is the most likely explanation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 explanation	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 explanation	amod
6	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is an April Fools' joke story

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	8 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 story	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
4	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fools	compound
5	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 joke	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Fools	case
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke story					tree rules
2	joke		April Fools						nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The news has made an honest mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mistake	amod
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive		the news					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product

Option 3

Penguins learn to fly in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fly	mark
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learn	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	Penguins						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive	Penguins not said here				spring		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The zoo has trained flying penguins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zoo	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trained	aux
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 penguins	amod
6	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · perfect · passive		the zoo					tree rules
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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