Test 10 · ★★★ · Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense

Which of these lines from the book is NOT a pun?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: pun, book

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lines	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 lines	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 lines	det
4	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pun	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pun	cop
9	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 pun	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pun	det
11	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lines	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lines	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		a pun		the book			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 · ← Mova's choice

«A long tail, certainly»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tail	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tail	amod
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 tail	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct

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

Option 2

«Because he taught us»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 taught	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	past	he		us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«Off with her head!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct
2	Off	off	ADV	_	5 head	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct

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

Option 4

«They lessen from day to day»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 lessen	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lessen	nsubj
3	lessen	lessen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lessen	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lessen	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 lessen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lessen in a quote	present	They				day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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