Test 6 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
Your cousin thinks "tormoz" is a word for a fast runner. What does it mean?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, tormoz · What happens: think, be, mean · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the Ukrainian street 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: Your cousin thinks "tormoz" is a word for a fast runner.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tormoz | punct |
| 5 | tormoz | tormoz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tormoz | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 word | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 runner | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 runner | det |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 runner | amod |
| 13 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Your cousin | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | tormoz | a word | for a fast runner | 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 it mean?
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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | tormoz | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
A fast runner, literally a rocket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 runner | det |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 runner | amod |
| 3 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rocket | punct |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 7 rocket | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rocket | det |
| 7 | rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runner | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A clever kid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A strong kid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A slowcoach, literally a brake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 slowcoach | det |
| 2 | slowcoach | slowcoach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brake | punct |
| 4 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 6 brake | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brake | det |
| 6 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slowcoach | conj |
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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