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Test 7 · ★★ · Idioms taken literally

Theo's mate goes "just spit it out, stop beatin' round the bush, bruv." What does he want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Theo · What happens: go, spit out, stop, want · To what, where: mate, beatin

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Idioms taken literally» 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: Theo's mate goes "just spit it out, stop beatin' round the bush, bruv."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Theo	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 spit	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 spit	advmod
7	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spit	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 spit	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spit	conj
12	beatin	beatin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 beatin	punct
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 bush	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bush	det
16	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bush	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Theo's mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spit out in a quote	infinitive	Theo's mate not said here	mate					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	stop in a quote	infinitive	Theo's mate not said here	beatin				round the bush and bruv	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality beatin=Eventuality

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 want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	Theo						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say it directly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				directly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Spit on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Go and play in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 play	cc
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	infinitive	you not said here			the garden			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Run round the bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 bushes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bushes	det
4	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the bushes			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bush=Trajectory

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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