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title: Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue. Is Dad being rude… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from… · tree and pragmatics
description: Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue. Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up? Test 4 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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
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# Test 4 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

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Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue. Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Phil, Dad · **What happens:** crack, be, speak up · **To what, where:** nasty joke, barbecue, Dad

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This is test 4 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:1
# text = Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue.
1	Phil	Phil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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 | **crack** | present | Phil | a nasty joke |  | a barbecue |  | about Mum | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=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:* Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:2
# text = Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Dad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Dad |  |  |  |  | to a friend; rude *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund | Dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, even old friends must respect your family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:o1:1
# text = No, even old friends must respect your family
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | must | old friends | your family |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, jokes are always fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:o2:1
# text = Yes, jokes are always fine
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	fine	fine	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 | jokes |  |  |  |  | always, fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, you should never stand up to your friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:o3:1
# text = Yes, you should never stand up to your friends
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand up** | should | you |  |  |  |  | to your friends | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, but he should hit Phil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:t4:o4:1
# text = No, but he should hit Phil
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Phil	Phil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | should | he | Phil |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme phil=Co-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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