Test 6 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house
«borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus. What would Sashko's family most likely say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: borshch, kid, family · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» of the Ukrainian street 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: «borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Russian | punct |
| 2 | borshch | borshch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Russian | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Russian | cop |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | ccomp |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Russian | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kid | det |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bus | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bus | det |
| 11 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kid | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | borshch | russian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a kid | 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 would Sashko's family most likely say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 3 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sashko | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 likely | advmod |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 8 say | advmod |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | Sashko's family | likely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That they agree completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agree | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 3 agree | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | That | completely property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
That it is Italian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Italian | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Italian | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Italian | cop |
| 4 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | italian property | tree rules |
Option 3
That borshch is a dessert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 borshch | det |
| 2 | borshch | borshch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dessert | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dessert | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dessert | det |
| 5 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that borshch | a dessert | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That it is Ukrainian, and UNESCO listed Ukrainian borshch cooking in 2022
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Ukrainian | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Ukrainian | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ukrainian | cop |
| 4 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 listed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 listed | cc |
| 7 | UNESCO | UNESCO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 listed | nsubj |
| 8 | listed | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ukrainian | conj |
| 9 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cooking | amod |
| 10 | borshch | borshch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cooking | compound |
| 11 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2022 | case |
| 13 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 listed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | ukrainian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | list | past | UNESCO | Ukrainian borshch cooking | 2022 | tree rules |
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.
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