--- title: Cousin: «we're bare close, he texts me every day». «Bare» means? — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Cousin: «we're bare close, he texts me every day». «Bare» means? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/t8/) [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/) / [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays Cousin: «we're bare close, he texts me every day». «Bare» means? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cousin, he, Bare · **What happens:** be, text, mean · **To what, where:** me This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Cousin: «we're bare close, he texts me every day». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:1 # text = Cousin: «we're bare close, he texts me every day». 1 Cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Cousin | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **text** *in a quote* | present | he | me | | | day | | 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:* «Bare» means? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:2 # text = «Bare» means? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Bare | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Naked ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:o1:1 # text = Naked 1 Naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Very ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:o2:1 # text = Very 1 Very very ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Not at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:o3:1 # text = Not at all 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Sometimes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t8:o4:1 # text = Sometimes 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 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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