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Test 5 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

A Gen Z gamer says "no word can be nine letters with one vowel, that's cap." ("Cap" means a lie.) Which word proves him wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Z gamer, word, Cap · What happens: say, be, mean, prove · To what, where: nine letters, cap, lie, gamer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Grammar puzzles, part two» 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 Gen Z gamer says "no word can be nine letters with one vowel, that's cap."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gamer	det
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Z	compound
3	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gamer	compound
4	gamer	gamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 letters	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 letters	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 letters	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 letters	cop
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 letters	nummod
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 vowel	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 vowel	nummod
15	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 letters	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 cap	det
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cap	cop
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Z gamer						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	can	no word	nine letters				with one vowel	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present		that cap					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: ("Cap" means a lie.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Cap	punct
3	Cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Cap	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Cap	a lie					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic

Sentence 3: Which word proves him wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proves	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proves	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	which word	gamer				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Strengths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strengths	strength	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Scrumptious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrumptious	scrumptious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Scratched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Spaghetti

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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