Test 1 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no

«ni means knee in ukrainian lol» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ni, ukrainian lol · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: knee

This is test 1 of lesson 2 «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 ni	punct
2	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lol	case
6	ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lol	amod
7	lol	lol	NOUN	_	3 means	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 lol	punct
9	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lol	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	ni	knee				in ukrainian lol	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot knee=Theme in lol=Attribute
2	is	present	ukrainian lol					right property	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

Yes, and it also means leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 means	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 means	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	leg					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Topic

Option 2

Yes, ni is the body part, the bend in your leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 part	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 part	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	compound
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bend	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bend	det
10	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 leg	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 leg	nmod:poss
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bend	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ni	the body part and the bend in your leg					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, ni means no; it only sounds like «knee»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	ni	ni	X	Foreign=Yes	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sounds	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 sounds	advmod
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 knee	case
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 knee	punct
12	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounds	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ni						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	sound	present	it					like knee	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

No, ni means yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	ni	ni	X	Foreign=Yes	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ni						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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