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title: Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs. Why not? — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs. Why not? Test 7 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Funny pranks

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Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs. Why not?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** want, jump out · **To what, where:** Gran

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:1
# text = Leo wants to jump out at Gran on the stairs.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **jump out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Leo *not said here* |  |  | Gran |  | on the stairs; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gran=Trajectory |

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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:* Why not?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:2
# text = Why not?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Stairs are boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:o1:1
# text = Stairs are boring
1	Stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	boring	boring	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 | Stairs |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A fright on the stairs could make her fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:o2:1
# text = A fright on the stairs could make her fall
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | a fright on the stairs | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's too easy to be funny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:o3:1
# text = It's too easy to be funny
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	csubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gran doesn't like any kind of jokes or tricks at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:438-funny-pranks:t7:o4:1
# text = Gran doesn't like any kind of jokes or tricks at all
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Gran | any kind of jokes or tricks |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=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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