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title: Teacher in Sydney: «Surprise test, half your grade!» then «April Foo… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher in Sydney: «Surprise test, half your grade!» then «April Fools!» and lollies. What are lollies? Test 4 · ★ 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.
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# Test 4 · ★ · April Fools' Day

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Teacher in Sydney: «Surprise test, half your grade!» then «April Fools!» and lollies. What are lollies?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lollies

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher in Sydney: «Surprise test, half your grade!» then «April Fools!» and lollies.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:1
# text = Teacher in Sydney: «Surprise test, half your grade!» then «April Fools!» and lollies.
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grade	grade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fools	Fool	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lollies	lolly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What are lollies?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:2
# text = What are lollies?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lollies	lolly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **is a** | present |  | lollies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lollipop ladies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:o1:1
# text = Lollipop ladies
1	Lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stickers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:o2:1
# text = Stickers
1	Stickers	sticker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:o3:1
# text = Sweets
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pencils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:440-april-fools-day:t4:o4:1
# text = Pencils
1	Pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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