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Test 2 · ★★ · Cruel pranks and where the line is

Mason laughs every time his bag is hidden. Does that mean he's fine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mason, time, that · What happens: laugh, hide, mean, be · To what, where: bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 439 «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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: Mason laughs every time his bag is hidden.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	obl:unmarked
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bag	nmod:poss
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hidden	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hidden	aux:pass
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 time	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Mason				time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hide	present · passive	every time not said here	Mason's bag					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: Does that mean he's fine?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Mason					fine property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, he's just tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not necessarily — fake laughs hide hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 necessarily	advmod
2	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	7 hurt	advmod
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laughs	amod
5	laughs	laugh	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	nsubj
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 necessarily	advcl
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	fake laughs						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	participle						necessarily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, laughing means he loves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loves	nsubj
6	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	laughing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	love	present	he	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, he would always say if he minded it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 minded	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 minded	nsubj
9	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 minded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	he					always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mind a condition, not said to happen	past	he	it					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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