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Test 5 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji

A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, Emoji, real story · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: EMOTION icon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!"

detnsubjpunctnsubjccompcompoundobjpunctpunctrootADETcartoonNOUNsaysVERB"PUNCTEmojiPROPNmeansVERBEMOTIONNOUNiconNOUN!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 cartoondet
2cartooncartoonNOUNNumber=Sing3 saysnsubj
3sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4""PUNCT_6 meanspunct
5EmojiEmojiPROPNNumber=Sing6 meansnsubj
6meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 saysccomp
7EMOTIONemotionNOUNNumber=Sing8 iconcompound
8iconiconNOUNNumber=Sing6 meansobj
9!!PUNCT_8 iconpunct
10""PUNCT_6 meanspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: expresspresenta cartoonvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2mean in a quotepresentEmojiEMOTION iconvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent icon=Topic

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 the real story?

copdetamodnsubjpunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXtheDETrealADJstoryNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Whatcop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 storydet
4realrealADJDegree=Pos5 storyamod
5storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing1 Whatnsubj
6??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe real storytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's from Spanish

nsubjcopcaserootItPRON'sAUXfromADPSpanishPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 Spanishnsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 Spanishcop
3fromfromADP_4 Spanishcase
4SpanishSpanishPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentItSpanishtree rules

Option 2

It's from Ukrainian

nsubjcopcaserootItPRON'sAUXfromADPUkrainianPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 Ukrainiannsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 Ukrainiancop
3fromfromADP_4 Ukrainiancase
4UkrainianUkrainianPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentItUkrainiantree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's Japanese: picture + character

nsubjcoppunctparataxisccconjrootItPRON'sAUXJapaneseADJ:PUNCTpictureNOUN+SYMcharacterNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 Japanesensubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 Japanesecop
3JapaneseJapaneseADJDegree=Posrootroot
4::PUNCT_5 picturepunct
5picturepictureNOUNNumber=Sing3 Japaneseparataxis
6++SYM_7 charactercc
7charactercharacterNOUNNumber=Sing5 pictureconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentItjapanese propertytree rules

Option 4

It's right, from English

nsubjcoppunctcaseoblrootItPRON'sAUXrightADJ,PUNCTfromADPEnglishPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 rightnsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightcop
3rightrightADJDegree=Posrootroot
4,,PUNCT_6 Englishpunct
5fromfromADP_6 Englishcase
6EnglishEnglishPROPNNumber=Sing3 rightobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentItEnglishright propertytree rules

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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