--- title: Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. Is it okay… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. Is it okay to be fooled? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/440-april-fools-day/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [April Fools' Day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/440-april-fools-day/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · April Fools' Day Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. Is it okay to be fooled? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gran, your · **What happens:** fall, laugh, joke, be, fool This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 440 «April Fools' Day» 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/440-april-fools-day/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:1 # text = Your gran falls for your harmless April joke and laughs. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | Your gran | | | | | for your harmless April joke | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for joke=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | present | Your gran *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **joke** | | your | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* Is it okay to be fooled? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:2 # text = Is it okay to be fooled? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 3 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fool** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Only if you're a child ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:o1:1 # text = Only if you're a child 1 Only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | you | a child | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yes, being fooled is part of the fun ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:o2:1 # text = Yes, being fooled is part of the fun 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **is a** | present | | fooled part | | | | of the fun | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} No, being fooled is always shameful, even for grans ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:o3:1 # text = No, being fooled is always shameful, even for grans 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 csubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 shameful shameful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 grans gran NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | for grans; always, shameful *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Only after noon ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t10:o4:1 # text = Only after noon 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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