Test 12 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

bro what does "laconic" mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: mean

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» of the books 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 laconic	obl
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laconic	aux
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 laconic	punct
5	laconic	laconic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bro	acl:relcl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 laconic	punct
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	infinitive	bro						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Speaking at great length without end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 length	amod
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 end	case
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund				great length	without end		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Answer full of many long words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Answer	xcomp
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 words	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					full property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Long speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 speech	amod
2	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Short answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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