Test 1 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more
Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». What does «wicked» mean there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, wicked · What happens: be, mean
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 430 «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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: Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Boston | case |
| 3 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 awesome | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 awesome | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 awesome | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 awesome | cop |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 awesome | amod |
| 9 | awesome | awesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Mate | parataxis |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 awesome | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | awesome property | 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: What does «wicked» mean there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mean | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | wicked | there | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Very
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Evil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boring | boring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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