Test 9 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

Make your own pun: which word has two meanings you could use for a joke about a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, word, two meanings, your · What happens: make, have, use, pun · To what, where: own pun

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pun	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pun	amod
4	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	parataxis
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 meanings	nummod
10	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 use	nsubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 use	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 use	aux
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 has	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 joke	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 joke	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	your own pun		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pun=Product
2	have	present	which word			tree rules
3	use	could	two meanings		for a joke about a tree	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pun		your			nom pun «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Leaf green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 green	compound
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Oak tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Oak	amod

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

Option 3

Root deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 Root	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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