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Test 5 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Sam reads "Fruit flies like a banana" and thinks fruit can fly. What's the trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, Fruit, trick · What happens: read, fly, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Sam reads "Fruit flies like a banana" and thinks fruit can fly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct
4	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 banana	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 banana	det
8	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thinks	cc
11	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thinks	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Sam						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly in a quote	present	Fruit					like a banana	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	Sam not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fly	can	fruit						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 trick?

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	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

"Fruit flies" are insects, and "like" means enjoy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flies	punct
2	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	compound
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 insects	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flies	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insects	cop
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 means	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	12 means	discourse
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insects	parataxis
13	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fruit flies	insects					tree rules
2	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	enjoy	infinitive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

"Like" means "as fast as"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
2	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Like	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 means	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 fast	fixed
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 as	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						fast property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's a spelling mistake

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	5 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	compound
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a spelling mistake					tree rules

Option 4

Bananas really can fly when you throw them hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 throw	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 throw	nsubj
7	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throw	obj
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 throw	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	Bananas						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	present	you	Bananas = banana				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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