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Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

A Texan speller says, "Y'all, onomatopoeia's fixin' to break me." ("Fixin' to" means about to.) What does onomatopoeia mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Texan speller, Fixin, onomatopoeia · What happens: say, break, mean · To what, where: Y'all, Texan speller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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: A Texan speller says, "Y'all, onomatopoeia's fixin' to break me."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 speller	det
2	Texan	texan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speller	amod
3	speller	speller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Y'all	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Y'all	punct
7	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fixin	punct
9	onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fixin	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 onomatopoeia	case
11	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Y'all	appos
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 fixin	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 break	mark
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fixin	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 break	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Y'all	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Texan speller	Y'all					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent y'all=Topic
2	break in a quote	to-infinitive	a Texan speller not said here	a Texan speller = speller					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient

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: ("Fixin' to" means about to.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Fixin	punct
3	Fixin	Fixin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Fixin	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	3 Fixin	flat
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Fixin	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	8 about	fixed
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does onomatopoeia mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	onomatopoeia						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

A word spelled the same way backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 word	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spelled	obj
7	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 spelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	participle	a word not said here	the same way				backwards property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A word with no vowels in it anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 vowels	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 vowels	det
5	vowels	vowel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 word	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vowels	nmod
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 word	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A word that sounds like its meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 word	acl:relcl
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 meaning	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meaning	nmod:poss
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	a word					like word's meaning	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean		word						nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Any very long word that comes from Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 word	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Greek	case
8	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	any long word			Greek			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from greek=Initial_Location

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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