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title: Make your own pun: which word has two meanings you could use for a j… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: Make your own pun: which word has two meanings you could use for a joke about a tree? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Puns and jokes that need a pun

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Make your own pun: which word has two meanings you could use for a joke about a tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, word, two meanings, your · **What happens:** make, have, use, pun · **To what, where:** own pun

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t9:1
# text = Make your own pun: which word has two meanings you could use for a joke about a tree?
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | your own pun |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pun=Product |
| 2 | **have** | present | which word |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | could | two meanings |  |  |  |  | for a joke about a tree | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pun** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pun «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Leaf green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t9:o1:1
# text = Leaf green
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oak tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t9:o2:1
# text = Oak tall
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Root deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t9:o3:1
# text = Root deep
1	Root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun:t9:o4:1
# text = Bark
1	Bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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