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title: Which prank would cause real harm? — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which prank would cause real harm? Test 3 · ★ 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.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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Which prank would cause real harm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prank · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** real harm

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t3:1
# text = Which prank would cause real harm?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | would | which prank | real harm |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stuffing a school toilet so it floods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t3:o1:1
# text = Stuffing a school toilet so it floods
1	Stuffing	stuff	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	floods	flood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | gerund |  | a school toilet |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme |
| 2 | **flood** | present | toilet |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Putting a googly eye on the milk bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t3:o2:1
# text = Putting a googly eye on the milk bottle
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	googly	googly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  | a googly eye |  | the milk bottle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on bottle=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Saying «Your shoelace is untied!» on April Fools' Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t3:o3:1
# text = Saying «Your shoelace is untied!» on April Fools' Day
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	shoelace	shoelace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	untied	untie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fools	Fool	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **untie** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | on April Fools's Day |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Swapping the cereal into a different box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t3:o4:1
# text = Swapping the cereal into a different box
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | gerund |  | the cereal |  | a different box |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cereal=Theme |

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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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