Test 3 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji

What would happen if you sent 💀 to someone who only knows the old meaning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, send, know · To what, where: someone, old meaning

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 sent	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	💀	💀	SYM	_	6 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sent	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knows	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 knows	advmod
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 someone	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meaning	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meaning	amod
15	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send a condition, not said to happen	past	you		someone	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 💀=Theme to someone=Destination
3	know	present		the old meaning		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=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.

The options

Option 1

They'd always laugh, because 💀 is funny to everybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 laugh	advmod
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 funny	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 funny	mark
7	💀	💀	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 funny	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 funny	cop
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laugh	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 everybody	case
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 funny	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	They					always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	💀					to everybody; funny property	tree rules

Option 2

Their phone would crash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 phone	nmod:poss
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crash	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crash	aux
4	crash	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	would	Their phone						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, everyone reads it the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 reads	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 reads	nsubj
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reads	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Nothing	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient same=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They might think something terrible happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 happened	nsubj
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	happen	past	something						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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