Test 9 · ★ · Funny pranks
In a prank video someone gets soaked and furious, and the prankster laughs alone. Is it a good prank?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prankster · What happens: soak, laugh, be · To what, where: someone, good prank
This is test 9 · ★ 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: In a prank video someone gets soaked and furious, and the prankster laughs alone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 video | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 video | det |
| 3 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 video | compound |
| 4 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soaked | obl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 soaked | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soaked | aux:pass |
| 7 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 furious | cc |
| 9 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soaked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughs | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prankster | det |
| 13 | prankster | prankster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughs | nsubj |
| 14 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soaked | conj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 laughs | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 soaked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak | present · passive | someone | in a prank video | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in video=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the prankster | alone property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Is it a good prank?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prank | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prank | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prank | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prank | amod |
| 5 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 prank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | prankster | a good prank | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, but only because of the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 water | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 water | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 water | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 because | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, if it gets lots of views
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 gets | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 gets | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gets | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 views | case |
| 8 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | it | lots of views | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, the pranked person must laugh too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 laugh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | pranked | prank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | aux |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 laugh | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prank | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | laugh | must | the pranked person | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, any big reaction is a good one for a video
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 reaction | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reaction | amod |
| 5 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 video | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 video | det |
| 12 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | any big reaction | a good one | for a video | tree rules |
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