Test 1 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Your mate goes "puns are only for brainy kids, I don't get 'em, bruv." What's the best tip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, puns, I, best tip · What happens: go, be, not get · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 28 «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language 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 goes "puns are only for brainy kids, I don't get 'em, bruv."

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 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kids	punct
5	puns	pun	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kids	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kids	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 kids	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 kids	case
9	brainy	brainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kids	amod
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	parataxis
16	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	puns		for brainy kids	tree rules
3	not get in a quote	present · do-support	I	'em = they	bruv vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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's the best tip?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tip	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tip	amod
5	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only read jokes in dictionaries, because that's where puns are explained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 read	advmod
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 dictionaries	case
5	dictionaries	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 explained	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 explained	mark
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 where	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 where	cop
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 explained	advmod
11	puns	pun	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 explained	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 explained	aux:pass
13	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 read	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	jokes	dictionaries		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic
2	is	present	that			where property	tree rules
3	explain speech: assert	present · passive		puns			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Look for the word with two meanings or a sound-alike word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 word	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 meanings	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 meanings	nummod
7	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 word	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alike	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sound	punct
12	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meanings	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					for the word; with two meanings or a alike word	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for word=Theme

Option 3

Laugh even if you don't get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Laugh	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Puns can't be learned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puns	pun	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	nsubj:pass
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 learned	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	aux:pass
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can · passive		Puns					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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