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Test 10 · Vocabulary in context

«barely means with no clothes on, like bare, innit». Is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: mean, innit, be

This is test 10 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» of the English 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: «barely means with no clothes on, like bare, innit».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct
2	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 clothes	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clothes	det
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 means	obl
7	on	on	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bare	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 bare	case
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 bare	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 bare	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present						with no clothes; barely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	innit in a quote	infinitive							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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, and the voice had no clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 clothes	det
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the voice	no clothes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, barely means only just

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	barely	barely	ADV	_	4 means	advmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 just	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	4 means	advmod

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

Option 3

Yes, barely and bare always mean the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	barely	barely	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bare	cc
5	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 barely	conj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	infinitive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present		the same				always, barely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic

Option 4

No, it means very loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loudly	advmod
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 means	advmod

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

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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