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title: Mason: «he said it's the best game ever, no cap». What does «no cap»… — «Only one left!»: shops and adverts · tree and pragmatics
description: Mason: «he said it's the best game ever, no cap». What does «no cap» mean here? Test 2 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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.
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# Test 2 · «Only one left!»: shops and adverts

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Mason: «he said it's the best game ever, no cap». What does «no cap» mean here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he, Mason, cap · **What happens:** say, be, mean · **To what, where:** best game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mason: «he said it's the best game ever, no cap».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:1
# text = Mason: «he said it's the best game ever, no cap».
1	Mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mason | the best game |  |  | ever |  | 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 does «no cap» mean here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:2
# text = What does «no cap» mean here?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | no cap |  |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:o1:1
# text = No money
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No limit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:o2:1
# text = No limit
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:o3:1
# text = No lie
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts:t2:o4:1
# text = No hat
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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