Test 2 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji
Your gran texts "So sorry about Goldie LOL" after your goldfish died. What has she probably mixed up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, goldfish · What happens: text, die, have, mix up
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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 gran texts "So sorry about Goldie LOL" after your goldfish died.
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 | 2 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 texts | nsubj |
| 3 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 texts | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 LOL | case |
| 8 | Goldie | Goldie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 LOL | compound |
| 9 | LOL | LOL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sorry | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 died | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 13 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 texts | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | Your gran | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | past | your goldfish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 has she probably mixed up?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mixed | nsubj |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 mixed | advmod |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 mixed | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mix up | past | goldfish | probably property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She thinks your goldfish was a joke and is laughing at you
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 | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 joke | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughing | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughing | aux |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thinks | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 laughing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | She | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | your goldfish | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | present · progressive | She not said here | at you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She thinks LOL means "lots of love"
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 | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | LOL | LOL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lots | punct |
| 6 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lots | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lots | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | LOL | lots of love | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
Option 3
She can't read texts
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 | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | can | She | texts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |
Option 4
She is laughing at you
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 laughing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | aux |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 laughing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | She | at you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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