Exam question 2 · Ukrainian compared with English

Identify the meaning of the Ukrainian sentence "Кота бачить собака".

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Кота · What happens: identify, бачить, mean · To what, where: meaning, собака, Ukrainian sentence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sentence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sentence	det
6	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sentence	amod
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 бачить	punct
9	Кота	Кота	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 бачить	nsubj
10	бачить	бачить	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sentence	acl:relcl
11	собака	собака	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 бачить	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 бачить	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the Ukrainian sentence	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	бачить in a quote	past	Кота	собака	tree rules
3	mean			the Ukrainian sentence	nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

The options

Option 1

The cat sees the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	the cat	the dog					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

Option 2

The cat and the dog see each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cat	conj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 see	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	the cat and the dog	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The dog sees the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	the dog	the cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

Option 4

The dog does not see the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · do-support	the dog	the cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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