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Test 5 · «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home

Grandma in Texas: «Boy, you fixin' to lie to me?» What does «fixin' to» mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma · What happens: fixin, lie, mean · To what, where: me

This is test 5 of lesson 427 ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» of the everyday 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: Grandma in Texas: «Boy, you fixin' to lie to me?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fixin	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Texas	case
3	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandma	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fixin	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fixin	punct
6	Boy	boy	INTJ	_	9 fixin	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Boy	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fixin	nsubj
9	fixin	fixin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 fixin	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lie	mark
12	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fixin	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lie	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fixin	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 fixin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fixin in a quote	present	Grandma in Texas						tree rules
2	lie in a quote	to-infinitive	Grandma in Texas not said here		me				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What does «fixin' to» mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fixin	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fixin	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct
4	fixin	fixin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	8 mean	mark
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fixin	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fixin	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Always going to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 going	advmod
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	2 going	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						always property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	1 About	fixed

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

Option 3

Trying to fix

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 fix	mark
3	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fix not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Never going to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 going	advmod
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	2 going	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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