Test 7 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji
Dad says "😂 can't be Word of the Year, it's not even a word!" What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, it · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: 😂, Word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Dad says "😂 can't be Word of the Year, it's not even a word!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 😂 | punct |
| 4 | 😂 | 😂 | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 says | obj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Word | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Word | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Word | cop |
| 8 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 😂 | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Year | det |
| 11 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Word | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 word | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 word | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 word | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 word | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 word | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Word | appos |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 word | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Dad | 😂 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 😂=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | can | Word | of the Year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | it | a word | tree rules |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It was chosen in 2015 because it was used so much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 2015 | case |
| 5 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 chosen | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chosen | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 used | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | It | 2015 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past · passive | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
Dad's right, it never happened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dad | case |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Dad | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 happened | advmod |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dad | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | past | it | Dad not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It was Word of the Year in 1917
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Word | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Word | cop |
| 3 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Year | det |
| 6 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Word | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1917 | case |
| 8 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | Word | 1917 | of the Year | tree rules |
Option 4
It was chosen as Picture of the Year, not Word of the Year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Picture | case |
| 5 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Year | det |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Picture | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Word | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 Word | advmod |
| 11 | Word | Word | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Year | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Year | det |
| 14 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | It | as Picture of the Year and Word of the Year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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