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title: Which joke is fine to share? — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which joke is fine to share? Test 1 · ★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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Which joke is fine to share?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** joke · **What happens:** be, share

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 313 «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t1:1
# text = Which joke is fine to share?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	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	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which joke |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | to-infinitive | which joke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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One that tricks a dog into a fright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t1:o1:1
# text = One that tricks a dog into a fright
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tricks	trick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present | One | a dog |  |  |  | into a fright *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Patient into fright=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One where you pretend to be badly hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t1:o2:1
# text = One where you pretend to be badly hurt
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present | One |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One about the funny way a classmate talks, as long as he isn't there

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t1:o3:1
# text = One about the funny way a classmate talks, as long as he isn't there
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | One |  |  |  |  | about the funny way; long *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about way=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | classmate |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One that makes everyone laugh, including the person it is about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t1:o4:1
# text = One that makes everyone laugh, including the person it is about
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | One | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | including the person | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | person | the person *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

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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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