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title: Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word f… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word. What will happen? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 28 «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

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Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word. What will happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** translate in, be, happen · **To what, where:** Lettuce, Ukrainian word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 28 «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language 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/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:1
# text = Your cousin translates "Lettuce in, it's cold" into Ukrainian word for word.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	translates	translate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate in** | present | Your cousin | Lettuce |  | Ukrainian word for word |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cousin |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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:* What will happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:2
# text = What will happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It will turn into a different joke by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:o1:1
# text = It will turn into a different joke by itself
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | It |  |  | a different joke |  | by joke | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into joke=Source by itself=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It will be funnier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:o2:1
# text = It will be funnier
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	funnier	funny	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | It |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

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

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The pun disappears, because "lettuce" and "let us" only sound alike in English

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:o3:1
# text = The pun disappears, because "lettuce" and "let us" only sound alike in English
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | present | the pun | lettuce |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the pun *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | present | the pun *not said here* |  |  | English |  | alike *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will be just as funny, because a good joke works the same in every language

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t2:o4:1
# text = It will be just as funny, because a good joke works the same in every language
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | It |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | a good joke | the same |  | every language |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material |

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