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Test 9 · ★ · Sleepovers and inside jokes

The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter. Best idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, you · What happens: say, start, wheeze · To what, where: potato · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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: The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 potato	punct
5	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 potato	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 start	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 start	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mate	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mate	nmod:poss
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 you	conj
12	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
13	wheezing	wheeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 start	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 laughter	case
15	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wheezing	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher	potato					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent potato=Topic
2	start	present	you						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wheeze	gerund	you not said here					with laughter	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=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: Best idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Save the joke for break time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Save	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	the joke			time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Shout PO-TAH-TO louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	PO	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 TAH	punct
4	TAH	TAH	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 PO	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 TAH	punct
6	TO	to	PART	_	7 louder	mark
7	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shout	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	PO					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent po=Topic

Option 3

Explain the joke to the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the joke	the class				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to class=Recipient

Option 4

Throw a potato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 potato	det
3	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	a potato					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=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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