Test 9 · Slang and how it changes with every generation
A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing." What should you grab?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Canadian kid, kid, you · What happens: say, grab, freeze · To what, where: toque · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grab | punct |
| 6 | Grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 toque | nmod:poss |
| 8 | toque | toque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Grab | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 freezing | punct |
| 10 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 14 freezing | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 freezing | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 freezing | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 freezing | aux |
| 14 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Grab | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grab | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Canadian kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grab in a quote | infinitive | your toque | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toque=Theme | |||||
| 3 | freeze in a quote | present · progressive | kid | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 should you grab?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 grab | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grab | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 grab | nsubj |
| 4 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 grab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | should | you | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A hot drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A hockey stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 2 | hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | compound |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A woolly hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hat | det |
| 2 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hat | amod |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A warm coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 coat | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coat | amod |
| 3 | coat | coat | 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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