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Test 8 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

Kwesi's joke worked. Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum. What now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: joke, Kwesi · What happens: work, joke, tease, go on, get

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Kwesi's joke worked.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 joke	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kwesi	case
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	Kwesi's joke						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	joke		Kwesi						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: Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 goes	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goes	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gets	cc
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
8	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 mum	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nasty	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund							vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go on	present					week		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present						nasty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Sentence 3: What now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult; it's gone past a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 joke	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	is	present	adult					past a joke; gone property	tree rules

Option 2

Stay home from school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			school		home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fight the kid after school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fight	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	the kid			after school		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Co-Agent

Option 4

Keep making jokes back, every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 jokes	amod
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep back	imperative	you not said here	making jokes			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
2	make	gerund							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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