Test 6 · ★★★ · Friends who get it
Tyler: «ur gran's mac and cheese is bussin, no cap». What does Tyler think?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tyler · What happens: be, think
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 525 «Friends who get it» 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: Tyler: «ur gran's mac and cheese is bussin, no cap».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler | Tyler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bussin | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 bussin | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 bussin | punct |
| 4 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gran | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 gran | case |
| 7 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bussin | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cheese | cc |
| 9 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bussin | cop |
| 11 | bussin | bussin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cap | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 cap | det |
| 14 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bussin | parataxis |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 cap | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bussin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Tyler | bussin 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 Tyler think?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 think | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | Tyler | Tyler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | Tyler | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It needs more cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 cheese | amod |
| 4 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | It | more cheese | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cheese=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's really, truly good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 5 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | good, truly property | tree rules |
Option 3
He's lying to be polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 polite | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 polite | cop |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present · progressive | He | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | He not said here | polite property | tree rules |
Option 4
It's okay, nothing special
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 okay | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 okay | cop |
| 3 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 okay | conj |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | okay property | tree rules |
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