Test 3 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice

What would happen if you texted "great, thanks a lot" to a friend with no emoji after they forgot your birthday?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: happen, texted, thank, forget · To what, where: great, lot, birthday

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 texted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 texted	nsubj
6	texted	texted	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 great	punct
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 texted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thanks	punct
10	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanks	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lot	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 friend	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanks	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 emoji	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 emoji	det
19	emoji	emoji	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanks	obl
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 forgot	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgot	nsubj
22	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thanks	advcl
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 birthday	nmod:poss
24	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forgot	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	texted a condition, not said to happen	present	you	great		tree rules
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		a lot	to a friend; with no emoji	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	forget	past	they	your birthday		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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They might not know if you're cross or happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cross	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 cross	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cross	cop
8	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	might	They		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	cross property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They'd always know you're joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 joking	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joking	aux
7	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	They					always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	joke speech: other	present · progressive	you						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The phone would automatically add a sad face to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 add	aux
4	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	5 add	advmod
5	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	would	the phone	a sad face	face			automatically property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient to it=Co-Patient

Option 4

Nothing, texts always show tone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 show	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 show	advmod
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Nothing	tone				always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tone=Recipient

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