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Test 9 · ★★ · Idioms taken literally

An English cousin is scared when a Glasgow girl says "away and bile yer heid". What should he understand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English cousin, Glasgow girl, he · What happens: be, say, understand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: An English cousin is scared when a Glasgow girl says "away and bile yer heid".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 says	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 girl	compound
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 says	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bile	cc
14	bile	bile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 away	conj
15	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heid	nmod:poss
16	heid	heid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bile	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bile	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a English cousin					scared property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a Glasgow girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 should he understand?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	should	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She really means to hurt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hurt	mark
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

Option 2

It's a recipe

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	4 recipe	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 recipe	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 recipe	det
4	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

It means "come here quickly"

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	infinitive				here		quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's a cheeky "go away", not a threat

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	4 cheeky	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheeky	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cheeky	det
4	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cheeky	parataxis
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threat	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 threat	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 threat	det
12	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheeky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cheeky property	tree rules
2	go away in a quote	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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