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title: A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day. Whose fault is th… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day. Whose fault is the teasing? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?

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A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day. Whose fault is the teasing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fault, teasing · **What happens:** call, be, fault · **To what, where:** girl, teasing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 203 «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:1
# text = A girl with freckles is called «Spotty» every day.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	freckles	freckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Spotty	Spotty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | a girl with freckles |  |  | day |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Whose fault is the teasing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:2
# text = Whose fault is the teasing?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the teasing's fault | the teasing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fault** |  | the teasing |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The teasers', never hers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:o1:1
# text = The teasers', never hers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teasers	teaser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	',	',	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hers, for having freckles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:o2:1
# text = Hers, for having freckles
1	Hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	freckles	freckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Hers *= she* | freckles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freckle=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody's, as it is only words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:o3:1
# text = Nobody's, as it is only words
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | as Nobody's words | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Hers, if she does not laugh along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing:t9:o4:1
# text = Hers, if she does not laugh along
1	Hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	along	along	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **laugh** | present · do-support | Hers *= she* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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