Test 5 · Picking teams and being picked last
Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last. What does lekker mean here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thando, nobody · What happens: go, be, mean · To what, where: lekker
This is test 5 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine 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: Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thando | Thando | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Town | case |
| 3 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | compound |
| 4 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thando | nmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lekker | punct |
| 7 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sir | punct |
| 9 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lekker | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 lekker | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lekker | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 last | advmod |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 last | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 last | cop |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goes | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Thando in Cape Town | lekker and sir | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lekker=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | nobody | last property | 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 does lekker mean here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | lekker | lekk | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 mean | advmod |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 mean | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | here | lekk property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Unfair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sleepy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rubbish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Great
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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