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title: The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter. Best idea? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 9 · ★ · Sleepovers and inside jokes

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The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter. Best idea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, you · **What happens:** say, start, wheeze · **To what, where:** potato · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:1
# text = The teacher says «potato» and you and your mate start wheezing with laughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	wheezing	wheeze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | potato |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent potato=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wheeze** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with laughter | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=Theme |

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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:* Best idea?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:2
# text = Best idea?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Save the joke for break time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:o1:1
# text = Save the joke for break time
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | the joke |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Shout PO-TAH-TO louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:o2:1
# text = Shout PO-TAH-TO louder
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	PO	po	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	TAH	TAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	TO	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | PO |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent po=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Explain the joke to the class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:o3:1
# text = Explain the joke to the class
1	Explain	explain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the joke | the class |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to class=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Throw a potato

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t9:o4:1
# text = Throw a potato
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | a potato |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=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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