Test 10 · ★ · April Fools' Day
Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. Is it okay to be fooled?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, your · What happens: fall, laugh, joke, be, fool
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» 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: Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 joke | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 joke | nmod:poss |
| 6 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joke | amod |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 joke | compound |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughs | cc |
| 10 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 falls | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Your gran | for your harmless April joke | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for joke=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | Your gran not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | joke | your | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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 okay to be fooled?
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 | 3 okay | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 okay | expl |
| 3 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fooled | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fooled | aux:pass |
| 6 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 okay | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 okay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | okay property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fool | to-infinitive · passive | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only if you're a child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 child | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 child | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 child | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 child | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a child | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, being fooled is part of the fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fooled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fooled | aux:pass |
| 4 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 part | amod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 part | cop |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fun | det |
| 9 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | gerund · passive | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | fooled part | of the fun | tree rules |
Option 3
No, being fooled is always shameful, even for grans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 shameful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shameful | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fooled | aux:pass |
| 4 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shameful | csubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shameful | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 shameful | advmod |
| 7 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grans | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 grans | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 grans | case |
| 11 | grans | gran | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shameful | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | gerund · passive | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | for grans; always, shameful property | tree rules |
Option 4
Only after noon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 noon | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 noon | case |
| 3 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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