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description: Kwesi's joke worked. Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum. What now? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel 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
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# Test 8 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

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Kwesi's joke worked. Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum. What now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** joke, Kwesi · **What happens:** work, joke, tease, go on, get

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kwesi's joke worked.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:1
# text = Kwesi's joke worked.
1	Kwesi	Kwesi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | Kwesi's joke |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **joke** |  | Kwesi |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:2
# text = Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum.
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go on** | present |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  | nasty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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*Sentence 3:* What now?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:3
# text = What now?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tell an adult; it's gone past a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:o1:1
# text = Tell an adult; it's gone past a joke
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | adult |  |  |  |  | past a joke; gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stay home from school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:o2:1
# text = Stay home from school
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | school |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fight the kid after school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:o3:1
# text = Fight the kid after school
1	Fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | imperative | you *not said here* | the kid |  |  | after school |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Keep making jokes back, every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t8:o4:1
# text = Keep making jokes back, every day
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep back** | imperative | you *not said here* | making jokes |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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