--- title: Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo." ("Arvo… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo." ("Arvo" means afternoon, "lollies" means sweets.) What word should be "buy"? 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What word should be "buy"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aussie mate, Arvo, lollies, word · **What happens:** text, mean, be · **To what, where:** gonna, sweets, buy This is test 8 of lesson 27 «Homophones: words that sound the same» 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/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:1 # text = Your Aussie mate texts "gonna by heaps of lollies this arvo." 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 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 gonna gonna X FW Foreign=Yes 4 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 lollies lolly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **text** | present | Your Aussie mate | gonna | | | | by heaps of lollies | 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:* ("Arvo" means afternoon, "lollies" means sweets.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:2 # text = ("Arvo" means afternoon, "lollies" means sweets.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Arvo Arvo 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 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 lollies lolly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Arvo | | | | afternoon | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | lollies | sweets | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Topic | *Sentence 3:* What word should be "buy"? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:3 # text = What word should be "buy"? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 buy buy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | should | what word | buy | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Gonna ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:o1:1 # text = Gonna 1 Gonna Gonna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Heaps ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:o2:1 # text = Heaps 1 Heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} By ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:o3:1 # text = By 1 By by ADP IN _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Lollies ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same:t8:o4:1 # text = Lollies 1 Lollies lolly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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