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Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Dylan, Gen Alpha: "I'm fasting till lunch, no cap, I'm starving." ("No cap" means no lie.) What does "fasting" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dylan, I, cap · What happens: fast, starve, mean · To what, where: lie

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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: Dylan, Gen Alpha: "I'm fasting till lunch, no cap, I'm starving."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dylan	Dylan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fasting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Alpha	punct
3	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Alpha	compound
4	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dylan	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fasting	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fasting	aux
9	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	till	till	ADP	_	11 lunch	case
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fasting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lunch	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 starving	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 starving	nsubj
17	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 starving	aux
18	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fasting	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fast in a quote	present · progressive	Dylan and Gen Alpha				till lunch and no cap		tree rules
2	starve in a quote	present · progressive	I						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: ("No cap" means no lie.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cap	punct
3	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cap	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	no cap	no lie					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic

Sentence 3: What does "fasting" mean here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fasting	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fasting	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fasting	punct
4	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fasting	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fasting	xcomp
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fast in a quote	present · do-support							tree rules
2	mean	infinitive				here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 eating	advmod
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sleeping in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Running quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund						quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Hurrying up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hurrying	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry up	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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