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title: Mate: «saw this cling film toilet prank on YouTube, gonna do it». Wh… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate: «saw this cling film toilet prank on YouTube, gonna do it». What's the honest warning? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Funny pranks

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Mate: «saw this cling film toilet prank on YouTube, gonna do it». What's the honest warning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** honest warning · **What happens:** see, do, be · **To what, where:** toilet prank, YouTube, prank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate: «saw this cling film toilet prank on YouTube, gonna do it».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:1
# text = Mate: «saw this cling film toilet prank on YouTube, gonna do it».
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
6	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  | this toilet prank |  | YouTube |  | Mate *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | prank |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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's the honest warning?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:2
# text = What's the honest warning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 honest warning |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It never works in real life, only on video

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:o1:1
# text = It never works in real life, only on video
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **work** | present | It |  |  |  |  | in real life | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Toilets at home don't fit cling film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:o2:1
# text = Toilets at home don't fit cling film
1	Toilets	toilet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | Toilets at home | cling film |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient |

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

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You'll be the one cleaning it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:o3:1
# text = You'll be the one cleaning it up
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | You | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean up** | gerund | the one *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's always hilarious for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t2:o4:1
# text = It's always hilarious for everyone
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | for everyone; always, hilarious *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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