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Test 6 · ★ · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

A Gen Alpha kid says "brunch and smog are just slang, they don't count." What's fairer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gen kid, brunch · What happens: say, be, not count · To what, where: slang · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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 Alpha kid says "brunch and smog are just slang, they don't count."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kid	det
2	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kid	compound
3	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gen	flat
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 brunch	punct
7	brunch	brunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slang	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smog	cc
9	smog	smog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brunch	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 slang	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 slang	advmod
12	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 count	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 count	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 count	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 count	advmod
17	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 count	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Gen kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	brunch and smog	slang					tree rules
3	not count in a quote	present · do-support	brunch						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fairer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only blends from Latin count as real words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 blends	advmod
2	blends	blend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 count	mark
4	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 count	nsubj
5	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blends	ccomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 words	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blend	present							tree rules
2	count	present	Latin					as real words	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as word=Attribute

Option 2

Blends only count if a king approves them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blends	blend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 count	advmod
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 approves	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 approves	nsubj
7	approves	approve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 count	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 approves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Blends						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	approve a condition, not said to happen	present	a king	Blends = blend					vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They're blends, and many blends become normal words

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 blends	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blends	cop
3	blends	blend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blends	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blends	cc
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blends	amod
7	blends	blend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blends	conj
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	blends and many blends					tree rules
2	become	present	blends and many blends	normal words					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He's right, blends are never real words in any dictionary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 words	punct
5	blends	blend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 words	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 words	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 words	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dictionary	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 dictionary	det
12	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	blends	real words		any dictionary			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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