Test 10 · ★ · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost
Priya: "You can feel it? Bestie, that's not data, that's a mood." What does "bestie" mean?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya, that, bestie · What happens: feel, not be, be, mean · To what, where: it, data, mood
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» 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: Priya: "You can feel it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | can | Priya | it | vn hunt-35.1 «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: Bestie, that's not data, that's a mood."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bestie | Bestie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 data | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 data | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 data | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 data | advmod |
| 6 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bestie | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mood | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mood | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mood | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mood | det |
| 11 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bestie | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mood | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | that | data | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a mood | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What does "bestie" 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 bestie | punct |
| 4 | bestie | bestie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bestie | 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 | bestie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
A boss in the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boss | det |
| 2 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The best drop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 drop | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 drop | amod |
| 3 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Best player
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 player | amod |
| 2 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Best friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 friend | amod |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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