Test 10 · The big language quiz
You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, friend, calling form · What happens: call, smile, say, be · To what, where: Мама, Ukrainian playground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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.
The question
Sentence 1: You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Мама | punct |
| 4 | Мама | Мама | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Мама | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Мама | punct |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 playground | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 playground | det |
| 9 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 playground | amod |
| 10 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiles | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smiles | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smiles | nsubj |
| 15 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 smiles | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 form | det |
| 19 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 form | compound |
| 20 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | You | Мама | a Ukrainian playground | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent мама=Recipient | |||
| 2 | smile | present | your friend | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the calling form | 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 is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | friend | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Мамо!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Мамо | Мамо | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Мамо | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Мамою!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Мамою | Мамою | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Мамою | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Мами!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Мами | Мами | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Мами | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Маму!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Маму | Маму | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Маму | punct |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t10/