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Test 2 · ★ · April Fools' Day

Your mate pranks you at 3 pm on 1 April. What does the British and Irish tradition say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, British tradition · What happens: prank, say · To what, where: you, 3 pm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 mate pranks you at 3 pm on 1 April.

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pranks	nsubj
3	pranks	prank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pranks	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 pm	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 pm	nummod
7	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pranks	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 April	case
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 April	nummod
10	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pm	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pranks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prank	present	Your mate	you		3 pm on 1 April			tree rules

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 does the British and Irish tradition say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tradition	det
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tradition	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Irish	cc
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 British	conj
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the British tradition						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

The day after is April Fools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fools	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	2 day	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Fools	cop
5	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fools	compound
6	Fools	Fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		April Fools			day		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

After noon, the prankster is the fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fool	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 noon	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prankster	det
5	prankster	prankster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fool	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the prankster	the fool			noon		tree rules

Option 3

Pranks only count after noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 count	advmod
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Pranks				noon		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Pranks can go on all night until midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	Pranks				midnight; night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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