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title: Which prank is fine? — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pran… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which prank is fine? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 278 «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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 6 · ★ · Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm

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Which prank is fine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prank · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 278 «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play:t6:1
# text = Which prank is fine?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which prank |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Spraying paint on a neighbour's fence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play:t6:o1:1
# text = Spraying paint on a neighbour's fence
1	Spraying	spray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spray** | gerund |  | paint |  | a neighbour's fence |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paint=Theme on fence=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Locking the dog in a cupboard for a laugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play:t6:o2:1
# text = Locking the dog in a cupboard for a laugh
1	Locking	lock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | gerund |  | the dog |  | a cupboard |  | for a laugh | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stuffing toilet paper in a school toilet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play:t6:o3:1
# text = Stuffing toilet paper in a school toilet
1	Stuffing	stuff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | gerund |  | toilet paper |  | a school toilet |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in toilet=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A silly harmless joke that everyone laughs at, the friend too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play:t6:o4:1
# text = A silly harmless joke that everyone laughs at, the friend too
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh at** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | 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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