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Test 2 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice

Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story. What's really meant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: London cousin, cousin · What happens: hear, think, believe, mean · To what, where: right, shark story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story.

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	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	compound
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hears	nsubj
4	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
6	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 right	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hears	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 lad	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lad	det
12	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lad	compound
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thinks	cc
15	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hears	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believes	nsubj
17	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thinks	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
19	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 story	compound
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 believes	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Your London cousin	right					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	present	Your London cousin not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	believe	present	cousin	the shark story					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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 really meant?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 meant	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

The options

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

He doesn't believe it

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	4 believe	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	present · do-support	He	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

He totally believes it

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 believes	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 believes	advmod
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	He	it				totally property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

He's scared of sharks

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 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sharks	case
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of sharks; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

He wants to go right

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					right 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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