Test 8 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji
Your mum reads your mate's text "gtg ttyl" and asks if it's code for something bad. What should you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, text, you · What happens: read, ask, be, say · To what, where: text, code · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 mum reads your mate's text "gtg ttyl" and asks if it's code for something bad.
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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 text | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mate | case |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ttyl | punct |
| 9 | gtg | gtg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ttyl | compound |
| 10 | ttyl | ttyl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 text | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ttyl | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asks | cc |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reads | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 code | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 code | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 code | cop |
| 17 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asks | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 something | case |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 code | nmod |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 something | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Your mum | your mate's text | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Your mum not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | text | code | for something | 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 should you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It means "got to go, talk to you later"
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 talk | obl |
| 11 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 talk | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | infinitive | you | late property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent |
Option 2
It's a spelling mistake
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 | 5 mistake | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistake | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mistake | det |
| 4 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mistake | compound |
| 5 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a spelling mistake | tree rules |
Option 3
It means "go to the garden"
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location |
Option 4
It is secret spy code
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 | 5 code | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 code | cop |
| 3 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 code | amod |
| 4 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 code | compound |
| 5 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | secret spy code | tree 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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