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title: «unlegal, cos un- means not innit». What is the real word? — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «unlegal, cos un- means not innit». What is the real word? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-

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«unlegal, cos un- means not innit». What is the real word?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** unlegal, real word · **What happens:** not mean, innit, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «unlegal, cos un- means not innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:1
# text = «unlegal, cos un- means not innit».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	unlegal	unlegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cos	cos	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** *in a quote* | present | unlegal |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the real word?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:2
# text = What is the real word?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the real word |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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dislegal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:o1:1
# text = dislegal
1	dislegal	dislegal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
inlegal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:o2:1
# text = inlegal
1	inlegal	inlegal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
imlegal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:o3:1
# text = imlegal
1	imlegal	imlegal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
illegal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir:t3:o4:1
# text = illegal
1	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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