Test 8 · White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing
A boy in Boston says "wicked hot" about the weather. What does "wicked" mean there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, wicked · What happens: say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 83 «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics 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 boy in Boston says "wicked hot" about the weather.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Boston | case |
| 4 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hot | amod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 weather | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weather | det |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hot | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy in Boston | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 "wicked" mean there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mean | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | wicked | there | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Evil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Very
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Strange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strange | strange | 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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