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title: Identify the principal reason for which animals should never be pran… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which animals should never be pranked. Exam question 2 of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 2 · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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Identify the principal reason for which animals should never be pranked.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, not prank · **To what, where:** principal reason, animals

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which animals should never be pranked.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	pranked	prank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prank** | should · passive |  | animals |  |  |  | for the principal reason | 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 {#o1}

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Animals find pranks tiresome but harmless, and forget them soon after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:e2:o1:1
# text = Animals find pranks tiresome but harmless, and forget them soon after
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Animals | pranks |  |  |  | tiresome *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Topic |
| 2 | **forget after** | infinitive | Animals *not said here* | pranks *= prank* |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Animals retaliate against pranksters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:e2:o2:1
# text = Animals retaliate against pranksters
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	retaliate	retaliate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pranksters	prankster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retaliate** | present | Animals |  |  |  |  | against pranksters | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against prankster=Maleficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pranks make animals more intelligent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:e2:o3:1
# text = Pranks make animals more intelligent
1	Pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Pranks | animals |  |  |  | intelligent *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:e2:o4:1
# text = They do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | They | jokes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | may | a frightened animal |  |  |  |  | into danger *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result |

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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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