--- title: A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story? — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t5/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Texting, abbreviations and emoji](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Texting, abbreviations and emoji A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, Emoji, real story · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **To what, where:** EMOTION icon · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:1 # text = A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Emoji Emoji PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 EMOTION emotion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 icon icon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | a cartoon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Emoji | EMOTION icon | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent icon=Topic | 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:* What's the real story? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:2 # text = What's the real story? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the real story | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} It's from Spanish ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:o1:1 # text = It's from Spanish 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Spanish Spanish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | Spanish | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} It's from Ukrainian ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:o2:1 # text = It's from Ukrainian 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | Ukrainian | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} It's Japanese: picture + character ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:o3:1 # text = It's Japanese: picture + character 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 6 + + SYM SYM _ 7 cc _ _ 7 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | | | japanese *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It's right, from English ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji:t5:o4:1 # text = It's right, from English 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | English | | right *property* | tree rules | **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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