Test 11 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Which sentence hides a pun?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: hide · To what, where: pun

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	nsubj
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pun	det
5	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	which sentence	a pun					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pun=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1

The calendar is on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The calendar has twelve months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 months	nummod
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the calendar				month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The calendar's days are numbered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 calendar	case
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 numbered	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 numbered	aux:pass
6	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	number	present · passive		the calendar's days					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The calendar was a present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calendar	det
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 present	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 present	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 present	det
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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