--- title: Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». What does «wicked» mean the… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». What does «wicked» mean there? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 430 «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». What does «wicked» mean there? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** that, wicked · **What happens:** be, mean This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 430 «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» of the everyday 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/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:1 # text = Mate in Boston: «that's wicked awesome». 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 awesome awesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | awesome *property* | 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 «wicked» mean there? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:2 # text = What does «wicked» mean there? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Very ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:o1:1 # text = Very 1 Very very ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Evil ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:o2:1 # text = Evil 1 Evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Scary ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:o3:1 # text = Scary 1 Scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Boring ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more:t1:o4:1 # text = Boring 1 Boring boring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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