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Test 11 · How best friends start

«nobody gets my jokes except him lol». Why could that start a friendship?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, my, that · What happens: get, joke, start · To what, where: jokes, friendship

This is test 11 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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: «nobody gets my jokes except him lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 jokes	nmod:poss
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gets	obj
6	except	except	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jokes	nmod
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 gets	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present	nobody	my jokes				except him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
2	joke in a quote		my					except him = he	nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent except=obl

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 could that start a friendship?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 start	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 start	nsubj
4	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friendship	det
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	could	that	a friendship					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

It only works for gravy jokes

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 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 jokes	case
5	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jokes	compound
6	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					for gravy jokes	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for joke=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sharing the same sense of humour bonds people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sense	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bonds	case
6	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bonds	compound
7	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sense	nmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sharing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		the same sense of humour bonds					tree rules
2	sense			humour bonds					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Jokes make people scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Jokes	people				scared property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 4

It means he's only being polite to you to be nice

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 polite	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 polite	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 polite	cop
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 polite	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 nice	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 nice	cop
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 polite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he		you			polite property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					nice property	tree rules

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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