--- title: everyone's teasing the new girl about her accent — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics description: everyone's teasing the new girl about her accent Test 16 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/t16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad… everyone's teasing the new girl about her accent **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, girl · **What happens:** tease, accent · **To what, where:** new girl This is test 16 · ★ 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/#t16). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t16:1 # text = everyone's teasing the new girl about her accent 1 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | present · progressive | everyone | the new girl | | | | about girl's accent | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | | 2 | **accent** | | girl | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Join in, it's just teasing ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t16:o1:1 # text = Join in, it's just teasing 1 Join join VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join in** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tease** | present · progressive | it | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Ignore her too ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t16:o2:1 # text = Ignore her too 1 Ignore ignore VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Copy her accent too ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t16:o3:1 # text = Copy her accent too 1 Copy copy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* | her accent | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | | 2 | **accent** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Stop and be kind; mocking hurts ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t16:o4:1 # text = Stop and be kind; mocking hurts 1 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mocking mock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 7 hurts hurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mock** | gerund | | hurts | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme | **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. 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