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title: Family prank week rules: nothing breaks, nothing hurts, nothing mean… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: Family prank week rules: nothing breaks, nothing hurts, nothing mean. Which prank fits? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 438 «Funny pranks» 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 10 · ★ · Funny pranks

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Family prank week rules: nothing breaks, nothing hurts, nothing mean. Which prank fits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nothing, week rules, prank · **What happens:** break, hurt, mean, fit · **To what, where:** week rules

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 438 «Funny pranks» 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/438-funny-pranks/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Family prank week rules: nothing breaks, nothing hurts, nothing mean.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:1
# text = Family prank week rules: nothing breaks, nothing hurts, nothing mean.
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
13	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | nothing | week rules *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present | week rules |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Which prank fits?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:2
# text = Which prank fits?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | which prank |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Making fun of someone's looks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:o1:1
# text = Making fun of someone's looks
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Breaking a cup and blaming the dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:o2:1
# text = Breaking a cup and blaming the dog
1	Breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | gerund |  | a cup |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Patient |
| 2 | **blame** | gerund |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Googly eyes on the fridge food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:o3:1
# text = Googly eyes on the fridge food
1	Googly	googly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Hiding Mum's medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t10:o4:1
# text = Hiding Mum's medicine
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | Mum's medicine |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 2 | **medicine** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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