Test 3 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

What would happen to the "seven eight nine" joke if "ate" and "eight" sounded different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ate · What happens: happen, sound

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	11 joke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 joke	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nine	punct
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nine	compound
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nine	compound
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 joke	nummod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nine	punct
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 sounded	mark
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
14	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sounded	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eight	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 eight	punct
18	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 ate	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
20	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sounded	xcomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the nine joke	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sound a condition, not said to happen	past	ate					different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.

The options

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

The joke would stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the joke						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the joke not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would be twice as funny

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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 funny	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 funny	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 funny	advmod
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would become a maths question

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
5	maths	maths	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 question	compound
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a maths question					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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