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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.

nsubjpunctobjpunctpunctcasedetamodoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxisccconjdetcompoundnsubjpunctrootYouPRONcallVERB"PUNCTМамаPROPN!PUNCT"PUNCTacrossADPaDETUkrainianADJplaygroundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJyourPRONfriendNOUNsmilesVERBandCCONJsaysVERBtheDETcallingNOUNformNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 callnsubj
2callcallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3""PUNCT_4 Мамаpunct
4МамаМамаPROPNNumber=Sing2 callobj
5!!PUNCT_4 Мамаpunct
6""PUNCT_4 Мамаpunct
7acrossacrossADP_10 playgroundcase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 playgrounddet
9UkrainianukrainianADJDegree=Pos10 playgroundamod
10playgroundplaygroundNOUNNumber=Sing2 callobl
11,,PUNCT_15 smilespunct
12andandCCONJ_15 smilescc
13youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 friendnmod:poss
14friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing15 smilesnsubj
15smilessmileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 callparataxis
16andandCCONJ_17 sayscc
17sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 smilesconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 formdet
19callingcallingNOUNNumber=Sing20 formcompound
20formformNOUNNumber=Sing17 saysnsubj
21..PUNCT_2 callpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1call speech: assertpresentYouМамаa Ukrainian playgroundvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent мама=Recipient
2smilepresentyour friendvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpresentthe calling formvn 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?

copnsubjpunctrootWhatPRONisAUXitPRON?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Whatcop
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs1 Whatnsubj
4??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentfriendtree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Мамо!

punctrootМамоPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1МамоМамоPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
2!!PUNCT_1 Мамоpunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Мамою!

punctrootМамоюPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1МамоюМамоюPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
2!!PUNCT_1 Мамоюpunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Мами!

punctrootМамиPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1МамиМамиPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
2!!PUNCT_1 Мамиpunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Маму!

punctrootМамуPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1МамуМамуPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
2!!PUNCT_1 Мамуpunct

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/