Test 4 · ★★ · Souls, ghosts and stories

What would happen if someone joked «Boo, I'm your dead grandma!» to a kid whose gran just died?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, gran · What happens: happen, joke, be, die · To what, where: Boo, dead grandma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics 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 joked	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 joked	nsubj
6	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Boo	punct
8	Boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grandma	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 grandma	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grandma	cop
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandma	nmod:poss
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grandma	amod
14	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 kid	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 kid	det
19	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 gran	nmod:poss
21	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	nsubj
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 died	advmod
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kid	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a kid	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	joke speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	someone	Boo		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	someone	your dead grandma		tree rules
4	die	past	gran			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 kid would feel much better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the kid					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing; jokes never hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 jokes	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	past	Nothing jokes	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The kid could be really hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurt	aux:pass
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	could · passive		the kid					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Everyone would find it equally funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	equally	equally	ADV	_	6 funny	advmod
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Everyone	it				funny property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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