Test 9 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house
«pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says. What will it taste like?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: smetAna, mate · What happens: pour on, be, say, taste · To what, where: smetAna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: «pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 pour | punct |
| 2 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smetAna | det |
| 4 | smetAna | smetana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pour | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 pour | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cream | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cream | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cream | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 cream | case |
| 10 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pour | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 pour | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mate | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour on in a quote | infinitive | the smetAna | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smetana=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | smetAna | like cream | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 will it taste like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 taste | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taste | nsubj |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 taste | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | smetAna | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |
The options
Option 1
Sweet like whipped cream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 cream | case |
| 3 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cream | amod |
| 4 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sweet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip | participle | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Like vanilla custard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 custard | case |
| 2 | vanilla | vanilla | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 custard | amod |
| 3 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like chocolate sauce
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 sauce | case |
| 2 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sauce | compound |
| 3 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sour, not sweet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweet | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sweet | advmod |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sour | conj |
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.
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