Test 1 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes
«it's only banter, why's Corey being mardy». Is it only banter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Corey, banter · What happens: be · To what, where: banter
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel 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: «it's only banter, why's Corey being mardy».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 banter | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 banter | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 banter | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 banter | advmod |
| 5 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 mardy | advmod |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mardy | aux |
| 9 | Corey | Corey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mardy | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 mardy | cop |
| 11 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 banter | parataxis |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 banter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | banter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · progressive | Corey | mardy property | 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: Is it only banter?
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 | 4 banter | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 banter | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 banter | advmod |
| 4 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 banter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | banter | banter | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it's just a laugh and harmless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 laugh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 laugh | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 harmless | cc |
| 9 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laugh | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a laugh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 2
No, banter is only about football
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 banter | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 football | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 football | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 football | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 football | case |
| 7 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | banter | about football | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, jokes about family are bullying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 jokes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bullying | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jokes | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bullying | cop |
| 7 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | jokes about family | bullying | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, Corey can't take a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Corey | Corey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | can | Corey | a joke | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
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