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Test 7 · ★ · Funny pranks

Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs. Why not?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: want, jump out · To what, where: Gran

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 438 «Funny pranks» 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: Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 jump	mark
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 jump	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Gran	case
7	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jump	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Leo						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	jump out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Leo not said here			Gran		on the stairs; out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gran=Trajectory

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: Why not?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Why	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Stairs are boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boring	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boring	cop
3	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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

A fright on the stairs could make her fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fright	det
2	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fright	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	a fright on the stairs	her = she					tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It's too easy to be funny

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 easy	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 funny	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 funny	cop
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	csubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						funny property	tree rules

Option 4

Gran doesn't like any kind of jokes or tricks at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 jokes	case
8	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 tricks	cc
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jokes	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Gran	any kind of jokes or tricks		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=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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