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Test 2 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word. What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: translate in, be, happen · To what, where: Lettuce, Ukrainian word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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 cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word.

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 translates	nsubj
3	translates	translate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Lettuce	punct
5	Lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 translates	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 translates	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cold	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cold	cop
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 translates	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 word	case
13	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 word	amod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 translates	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 word	case
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 translates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate in	present	Your cousin	Lettuce		Ukrainian word for word			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	cousin					cold 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: What will happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It will turn into a different joke by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It			a different joke		by joke	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into joke=Source by itself=Trajectory

Option 2

It will be funnier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funnier	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 funnier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 funnier	cop
4	funnier	funny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	It					funny property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The pun disappears, because "lettuce" and "let us" only sound alike in English

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pun	det
2	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disappears	nsubj
3	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lettuce	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 lettuce	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lettuce	punct
7	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disappears	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lettuce	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 disappears	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 sound	advmod
15	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 disappears	advcl
16	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sound	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 English	case
18	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	the pun	lettuce					tree rules
2	let in a quote	infinitive	the pun not said here	us					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	sound	present	the pun not said here			English		alike property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=Location

Option 4

It will be just as funny, because a good joke works the same in every language

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 funny	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 funny	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 funny	advmod
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 works	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 joke	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joke	amod
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 works	nsubj
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 works	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 language	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 language	det
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	It					funny property	tree rules
2	work	present	a good joke	the same		every language			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material

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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