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Test 6 · ★★ · Cruel pranks and where the line is

Dare: «prank-call a random number, go on». What would happen if a scared old lady answered?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scared old lady · What happens: call, go on, happen, answer · To what, where: random number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Dare: «prank-call a random number, go on».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
4	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 prank	punct
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dare	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
8	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 number	amod
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 call	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	infinitive		a random number					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient
2	go on in a quote	infinitive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What would happen if a scared old lady answered?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 answered	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	participle	a scared old lady						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because old people love getting any phone call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 love	mark
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 love	xcomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 call	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	compound
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	old people						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get not said to happen	gerund	old people not said here	any phone call					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus

Option 2

She'd laugh and call back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laugh	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 call	cc
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laugh	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call back speech: assert	infinitive	She not said here						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She'd thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 thank	aux
3	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	would	She		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She might think something bad happened to her family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 happened	nsubj
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 family	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	happen	past	something					to her family	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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