Test 10 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no

«solodkykh sniv is soppy, only babies say it» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: solodkykh sniv, babies · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sniv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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	_	5 soppy	punct
2	solodkykh	solodkykh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sniv	amod
3	sniv	sniv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soppy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soppy	cop
5	soppy	soppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 babies	advmod
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soppy	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 soppy	punct
12	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soppy	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 soppy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	solodkykh sniv		soppy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	babies	sniv		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is	present			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, in a family it is just a sweet normal goodnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	12 goodnight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goodnight	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goodnight	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goodnight	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 goodnight	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 goodnight	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 goodnight	det
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goodnight	amod
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goodnight	amod
12	goodnight	goodnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	family	a sweet normal goodnight		a family			tree rules

Option 2

No, it means get up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get up	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, it is an insult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 insult	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 insult	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insult	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 insult	det
6	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, only for babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 babies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 babies	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 babies	case
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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