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Test 5 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van

Dad in Auckland, caught: «Yeah nah, fair cop.» What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: catch, mean · To what, where: fair cop

This is test 5 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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: Dad in Auckland, caught: «Yeah nah, fair cop.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Auckland	case
3	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 cop	punct
8	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 nah	discourse
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 cop	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cop	punct
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cop	amod
12	cop	cop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cop	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 cop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Dad in Auckland	fair cop					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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 he 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	Dad						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, I'm telling the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 telling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	I	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You caught me — no, you're right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 right	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 no	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caught	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	You	me					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is	present	you					right property	tree rules

Option 3

Call the police now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	the police			now		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

Option 4

Maybe we'll buy some later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 buy	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 buy	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	future	we	some				late, maybe property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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