Test 1 · Slang and how it changes with every generation

Your mate goes "old people's slang is cringe, ours is the best, no cap." What's the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, slang, ours, old people, fair view · What happens: go, be, slang · To what, where: cringe

This is test 1 of lesson 17 «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language 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: Your mate goes "old people's slang is cringe, ours is the best, no cap."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cringe	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slang	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 people	case
8	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cringe	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cringe	cop
10	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 best	punct
12	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 best	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 best	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 best	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 goes	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 best	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	old people's slang	cringe		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	ours		good property	tree rules
4	slang in a quote		old people			nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=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's the fair view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair view						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, slang from today will be cool forever and never change

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 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slang	punct
5	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 cool	case
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cool	obl:unmarked
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cool	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cool	cop
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slang	nmod
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	10 cool	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 change	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 change	advmod
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	is	future		today	cool, forever property	tree rules
3	not change	infinitive	He not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Every generation's slang felt cool to them; ours will sound old one day too

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 generation	det
2	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slang	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 generation	case
4	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
10	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sound	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sound	aux
12	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 felt	conj
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sound	xcomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	obl:unmarked
16	too	too	ADV	_	12 sound	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	every generation's slang		cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sound	future	ours	day	old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	slang		every generation			nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Old slang had no meaning, only today's slang means something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slang	amod
2	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 meaning	det
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 slang	advmod
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slang	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 today	case
10	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Old slang	no meaning	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient
2	mean	present	today's slang	something	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	slang		today		nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Slang was only invented when phones came along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 invented	advmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	advcl
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Slang					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	come along	past	phones					along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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