Test 2 · ★★ · Loot boxes and "free" skins
Kyle: "free my backside, I wasted ages!" ("my backside" means not at all.) What did the skin really cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kyle, backside · What happens: waste, not mean, cost · To what, where: ages
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 17 «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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: Kyle: "free my backside, I wasted ages!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wasted | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Kyle | amod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 backside | nmod:poss |
| 6 | backside | backside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kyle | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wasted | nsubj |
| 9 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wasted | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 wasted | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wasted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste in a quote | past | Kyle | ages | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient |
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: ("my backside" means not at all.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 backside | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 backside | nmod:poss |
| 4 | backside | backside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 backside | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 means | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 not | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present | my backside | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What did the skin really cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 cost | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 cost | advmod |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past · do-support | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£5 of real money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 money | amod |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two and a half minutes of his time watching ads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watching | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minutes | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 minutes | compound |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 time | nmod:poss |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watching | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Two | conj |
| 10 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | a half minutes | ads | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ad=Theme |
Option 3
His password
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 password | nmod:poss |
| 2 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Absolutely nothing at all, because ads are free to watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 2 nothing | advmod |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 nothing | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 free | mark |
| 7 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 free | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | cop |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nothing | amod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 watch | mark |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 free | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ads | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | ads not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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