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Test 7 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

A cartoon fish with no eyes says "I'm a fish!" What's the punchline it missed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon fish, punchline · What happens: say, be, miss · To what, where: fish, punchline · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: A cartoon fish with no eyes says "I'm a fish!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	compound
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 eyes	det
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fish	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fish	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fish	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a cartoon fish with no eyes						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	a cartoon fish with no eyes = fish	a fish					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's the punchline it missed?

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 punchline	det
4	punchline	punchline	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missed	nsubj
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 punchline	acl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the punchline						tree rules
2	miss	past	punchline	the punchline not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punchline=Stimulus

The options

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

Without the i (eye), it's a "fsh"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	3 i	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 i	det
3	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fsh	obl
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 i	appos
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 i	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fsh	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fsh	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fsh	det
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fsh	punct
12	fsh	fsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fsh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	eye	a fsh				without the i	tree rules

Option 2

It's a "blind fish"

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 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	a blind fish					tree rules

Option 3

It's a "fishy"

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 fishy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fishy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fishy	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fishy	punct
5	fishy	fishy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fishy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					fishy property	tree rules

Option 4

It's a "shell"

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 shell	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shell	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shell	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shell	punct
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	a shell					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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