Test 10 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice
Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." What does "yeah, nah" mean here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aussie mate, we · What happens: say, not camp, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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: Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kai | case |
| 3 | Aussie | Aussie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mate | compound |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 camping | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 14 camping | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 camping | punct |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 14 camping | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nah | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 camping | nsubj |
| 12 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 camping | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 camping | advmod |
| 14 | camping | camp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 says | ccomp |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 camping | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 camping | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 camping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kai's Aussie mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not camp in a quote | present · progressive | we | again | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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 "yeah, nah" mean here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nah | punct |
| 4 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 nah | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nah | punct |
| 6 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 mean | discourse |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nah | punct |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 mean | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Definitely yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Definitely | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Maybe tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 2 tomorrow | advmod |
| 2 | tomorrow | tomorrow | 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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