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Test 10 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Billy's mate in Liverpool says "that six and seven joke's boss, la." ("Boss" means great, "la" means mate.) Which two words sound the same in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Boss, la, two words · What happens: say, mean, sound · To what, where: mate, same, la · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: Billy's mate in Liverpool says "that six and seven joke's boss, la." ("Boss" means great, "la" means mate.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Billy	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Liverpool	case
5	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 boss	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 joke	det
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 joke	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seven	cc
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 six	conj
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boss	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 joke	case
14	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 la.	punct
16	la.	La.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 boss	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 boss	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Boss	punct
20	Boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 means	nsubj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Boss	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 means	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 la	punct
26	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	nsubj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 la	punct
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 means	conj
29	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Billy's mate in Liverpool						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Boss					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	la	mate					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic

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: Which two words sound the same in it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 words	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 words	nummod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nsubj
4	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sound	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	which two words	the same		la			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nine and fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fine	cc
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nine	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eight and ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ate	cc
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Eight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Afraid and fried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fried	cc
3	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Afraid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Six and seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 seven	cc
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Six	conj

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

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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