Test 8 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas
Your Gen Alpha cousin calls Lego Masters "lowkey hilarious" ("lowkey" means kind of). Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alpha cousin, lowkey · What happens: call, mean, be · To what, where: Lego Masters, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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: Your Gen Alpha cousin calls Lego Masters "lowkey hilarious" ("lowkey" means kind of).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Alpha | compound |
| 3 | Alpha | Alpha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | compound |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Masters | compound |
| 7 | Masters | Master | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 calls | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hilarious | punct |
| 9 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hilarious | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | hilarious | hilarious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 calls | parataxis |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hilarious | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lowkey | punct |
| 14 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lowkey | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 calls | parataxis |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kind | fixed |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Your Alpha cousin | Lego Masters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | lowkey | kind | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic |
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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is a cartoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cartoon | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cartoon | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cartoon | det |
| 4 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a cartoon | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is a real building show
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 show | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 show | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 show | amod |
| 5 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | compound |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a real building show | tree rules |
Option 3
Adults are not allowed to build with Lego on television
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 build | mark |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Lego | case |
| 8 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 television | case |
| 10 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Adults | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Adults not said here | television | with Lego | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with lego=Source |
Option 4
The big builds on the show are really made by robots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 big | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 builds | nsubj |
| 3 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 show | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 show | det |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 builds | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 robots | case |
| 11 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | the big | the show | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on show=Source | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | robots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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