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Test 10 · ★ · The rumour that grows

Leo: "I practised every night, my mum's got the flashcards to prove it. You lot are so delulu." What does "delulu" mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, mum, delulu · What happens: practise, get, prove, mean · To what, where: flashcards, it

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» of the world 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: Leo: "I practised every night, my mum's got the flashcards to prove it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 practised	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 practised	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 practised	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 practised	nsubj
5	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practised	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 practised	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flashcards	det
14	flashcards	flashcard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 prove	mark
16	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 got	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prove	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 practised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise in a quote	past	Leo				night		tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · passive	my mum	the flashcards					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flashcard=Stimulus
3	prove in a quote	to-infinitive	my mum not said here	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: You lot are so delulu."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lot	nsubj
2	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 delulu	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 delulu	advmod
5	delulu	delulu	X	Foreign=Yes	2 lot	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lot	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lot	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What does "delulu" mean?

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 delulu	punct
4	delulu	delulu	X	Foreign=Yes	6 mean	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 delulu	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	delulu						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Very clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Believing something silly that isn't true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Believing	obj
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 true	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	gerund		something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	not is	present						true property	tree rules

Option 3

Being kind to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						to others; kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Cheating at tests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 tests	case
3	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cheating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	gerund				tests			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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