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title: A boy in Ireland reads on April 1st that the school year will end in… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ireland reads on April 1st that the school year will end in March from now on. What is the most likely truth? Test 4 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and ad…

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A boy in Ireland reads on April 1st that the school year will end in March from now on. What is the most likely truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, school year, likely truth · **What happens:** read, end, be · **To what, where:** April 1st

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Ireland reads on April 1st that the school year will end in March from now on.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:1
# text = A boy in Ireland reads on April 1st that the school year will end in March from now on.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	1st	1st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | a boy in Ireland |  |  | April 1st |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | future | the school year |  |  |  | march |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the most likely truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:2
# text = What is the most likely truth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the likely truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Schools have changed their minds overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:o1:1
# text = Schools have changed their minds overnight
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · perfect | Schools | Schools's minds |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 2 | **mind** |  | Schools *= school* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is probably an April Fools' story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:o2:1
# text = It is probably an April Fools' story
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Fools	Fool	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a April Fools's story |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He should stop doing homework at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:o3:1
# text = He should stop doing homework at once
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | should | He | doing homework |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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News on April 1st is always extra true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts:t4:o4:1
# text = News on April 1st is always extra true
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	1st	1st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | News on April 1st |  |  |  |  | always, true *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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