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What does a.m. really mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aussie cousin, Brekkie, a.m. · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** brekkie, 7, breakfast · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 23 «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» 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/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your Aussie cousin says "brekkie at 7 a.m., means after midnight, yeah?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:1 # text = Your Aussie cousin says "brekkie at 7 a.m., means after midnight, yeah?" 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Aussie aussie NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cousin cousin 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 brekkie brekkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 a.m. a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Your Aussie cousin | brekkie | | 7 a.m. | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | midnight | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:* ("Brekkie" means breakfast.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:2 # text = ("Brekkie" means breakfast.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Brekkie Brekkie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Brekkie | breakfast | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Topic | *Sentence 3:* What does a.m. really mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:3 # text = What does a.m. really mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 a.m. a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | a.m. | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Any minute ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:o1:1 # text = Any minute 1 Any any DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} After midday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:o2:1 # text = After midday 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} After midnight ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:o3:1 # text = After midnight 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Before midday ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin:t3:o4:1 # text = Before midday 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midday midday 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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