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Test 6 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Your nan from Cornwall says "proper job, that bike joke, my lover." ("Proper job" means well done, "my lover" is a friendly greeting.) Which word pair makes the bike joke work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, lover, word pair · What happens: say, do, be, make · To what, where: proper job, friendly greeting, joke work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 nan from Cornwall says "proper job, that bike joke, my lover."

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 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Cornwall	case
4	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nan	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 job	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 job	amod
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joke	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 joke	det
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	compound
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lover	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lover	nmod:poss
15	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 job	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 job	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your nan from Cornwall	proper job and that bike joke and my lover					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent job=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: ("Proper job" means well done, "my lover" is a friendly greeting.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 job	punct
3	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 job	amod
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj:pass
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 job	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 done	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lover	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lover	nmod:poss
12	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 greeting	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lover	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 greeting	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 greeting	det
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 greeting	amod
17	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		Proper job				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is a	present	my lover	a friendly greeting					tree rules

Sentence 3: Which word pair makes the bike joke work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pair	compound
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joke	compound
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	compound
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	word pair	the joke work					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stand and sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sand	cc
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tired and tied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tied	cc
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle							vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two and too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 too	cc
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Two	conj

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

Option 4

Bike and bake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bake	cc
3	bake	bake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bike	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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