--- title: Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bru… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bruv." Which everyday words prove him wrong? Test 9 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 wro --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · The big language quiz Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bruv." Which everyday words prove him wrong? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, Vikings, everyday words · **What happens:** say, leave, prove · **To what, where:** words, bro · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bruv." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:1 # text = Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bruv." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bro bro 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 `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Vikings Viking PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 smashed smashed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your bro | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | the Vikings smashed stuff | no words | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | 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:* Which everyday words prove him wrong? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:2 # text = Which everyday words prove him wrong? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 2 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 prove prove VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | present | which everyday words | bro | | | | wrong *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} They, sky and egg ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:o1:1 # text = They, sky and egg 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Video, audio and bus ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:o2:1 # text = Video, audio and bus 1 Video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 audio audio NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Beef, pork and chef ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:o3:1 # text = Beef, pork and chef 1 Beef beef NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 pork pork NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 chef chef NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Pyjamas, jungle and loot ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t9:o4:1 # text = Pyjamas, jungle and loot 1 Pyjamas pyjama NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 loot loot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` 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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