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What does "wicked" mean there? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, wicked · **What happens:** say, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 of lesson 83 «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy in Boston says "wicked hot" about the weather. ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:1 # text = A boy in Boston says "wicked hot" about the weather. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Boston Boston 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 `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in Boston | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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:* What does "wicked" mean there? ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:2 # text = What does "wicked" mean there? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | wicked | | | there | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Evil ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:o1:1 # text = Evil 1 Evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Very ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:o2:1 # text = Very 1 Very very ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:o3:1 # text = Cold 1 Cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Strange ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing:t8:o4:1 # text = Strange 1 Strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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