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Test 8 · ★ · Funny pranks

Ava set all the clocks forward. Which is the smartest add-on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: set, be · To what, where: clocks, smartest add

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Ava set all the clocks forward.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clocks	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clocks	det
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	obj
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	Ava	all clocks				forward property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clock=Result

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 the smartest add-on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 add	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 add	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 add	det
4	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 add	amod
5	add	add	NOUN	_	root	root
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 on	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	5 add	compound
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Change the phones too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phones	det
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Change	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Change	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	the phones					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

Option 2

Never tell anyone, it's funnier that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 funnier	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 funnier	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 funnier	cop
7	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 tell	parataxis
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 funnier	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	is	present	it					that way obl:unmarked; funny property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell people before it makes them miss something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	iobj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 makes	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 miss	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	present	it	people					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
3	miss	infinitive		something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

Option 4

Set them an hour forward next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Set	obj
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	1 Set	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Set	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	them = they			hour; time	forward property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

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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