Test 5 · I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared

Why is "meni nUdno" a strange shape to an English ear?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: meni nUdno

This is test 5 of lesson 18 «I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 nUdno	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nUdno	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nUdno	punct
4	meni	meni	X	_	5 nUdno	compound
5	nUdno	nudno	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nUdno	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shape	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shape	amod
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nUdno	appos
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 ear	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ear	det
12	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ear	amod
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shape	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nUdno	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		meni nUdno					tree rules

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

It is only used by teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive	teachers	It					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

It is a question, not a sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 question	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 question	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sentence	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sentence	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a question					tree rules

Option 3

It literally says "I am a boredom"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
2	literally	literally	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 boredom	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 boredom	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boredom	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boredom	det
8	boredom	boredom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 boredom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It					literally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	I	a boredom					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It literally says "to me it's boring"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
2	literally	literally	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 boring	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 boring	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boring	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boring	cop
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 boring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It					literally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	it		me			boring property	tree rules

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