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title: A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing." What shoul… — Slang and how it changes with every ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing." What should you grab? Test 9 of lesson 17 «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language 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 9 · Slang and how it changes with every generation

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A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing." What should you grab?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Canadian kid, kid, you · **What happens:** say, grab, freeze · **To what, where:** toque · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 of lesson 17 «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language 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/language/17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:1
# text = A Canadian kid says "Grab your toque, eh, it's freezing."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Canadian kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grab** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your toque |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toque=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** *in a quote* | present · progressive | kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 should you grab?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:2
# text = What should you grab?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A hot drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:o1:1
# text = A hot drink
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	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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A hockey stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:o2:1
# text = A hockey stick
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stick	stick	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A woolly hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:o3:1
# text = A woolly hat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A warm coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:17-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation:t9:o4:1
# text = A warm coat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coat	coat	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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