--- title: Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." What d… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." What does she mean? Test 6 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t6/) [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/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / t6 # Test 6 · The big language quiz Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." What does she mean? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, craic · **What happens:** say, be, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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/40-the-big-language-quiz/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:1 # text = Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your mate from Dublin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the craic | | | | night | mighty *property* | 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:* What does she mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:2 # text = What does she mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | mate | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} It was cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:o1:1 # text = It was cold 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | It | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} A big fight ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:o2:1 # text = A big fight 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A loud crack ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:o3:1 # text = A loud crack 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} It was great fun ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t6:o4:1 # text = It was great fun 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | It | great fun | | | | | 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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