Test 7 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"
Lucas's cousin says, "Bruv, art's not only about pretty." What does "bruv" mean here?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, Bruv art, bruv · What happens: say, not be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of the arts 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Lucas's cousin says, "Bruv, art's not only about pretty."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lucas | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bruv | punct |
| 7 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 art | compound |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bruv | punct |
| 9 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pretty | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pretty | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 pretty | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 pretty | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 pretty | advmod |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 says | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lucas's cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Bruv art | about, pretty property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: What does "bruv" mean here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mean | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | bruv | here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
A stranger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Mate, a friendly word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brother, his real sibling only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sibling | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sibling | nmod:poss |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sibling | amod |
| 5 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brother | conj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 sibling | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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