Exam question 4 · Texting, abbreviations and emoji

Ascertain the meaning of the abbreviation "brb".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, mean · To what, where: meaning, abbreviation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 abbreviation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 abbreviation	det
6	abbreviation	abbreviation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 brb	punct
8	brb	brb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abbreviation	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 brb	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the abbreviation					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	mean			the abbreviation					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bye, really bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bye	bye	INTJ	_	4 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bye	punct
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Bring round bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 Bring	advmod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring round	imperative	you not said here	bread				round property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Be right back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Best regards, brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 regards	amod
2	regards	regards	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 regards	conj

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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