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Test 8 · ★★ · Cruel pranks and where the line is

«put salt in her bottle lol». Why is this not a harmless joke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, this · What happens: put, not be · To what, where: salt, bottle, harmless joke

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: «put salt in her bottle lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bottle	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bottle	nmod:poss
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 put	discourse
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	salt		her bottle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in bottle=Destination

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 is this not a harmless joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 joke	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 joke	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 joke	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	this	a harmless joke					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Salt is much too expensive to waste on a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expensive	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expensive	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 waste	mark
7	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 expensive	csubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 joke	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Salt					expensive property	tree rules
2	waste	to-infinitive						on a joke goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on joke=Goal

Option 2

She'd taste it at once

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 taste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	She	it					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

It's fine if she laughs

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	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 laughs	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughs	nsubj
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Anything put in someone's drink secretly could make them ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 make	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Anything	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 drink	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 drink	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	participle				someone's drink		secretly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in drink=Destination
2	make	could	Anything	them = they				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product

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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