Test 11 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no

«oi stop saying nE-a to my mum, she hates that» Why does the friend say this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, she, friend · What happens: stop, say, hate · To what, where: nE, mum, that, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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	_	3 stop	punct
2	oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hates	parataxis
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	nE	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nE	flat
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mum	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hates	nsubj
13	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 hates	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 say	advmod
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 friend	det
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hates	parataxis
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 say	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stop in a quote	present	oi			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	oi not said here	nE	my mum	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ne=Topic to mum=Recipient
3	hate in a quote	present	she	that		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the friend	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nE-a is a casual nope that can sound rude to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nE	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nope	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 nE	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 nE	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nope	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nope	det
6	casual	casual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nope	amod
7	nope	nope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sound	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sound	aux
10	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nope	acl:relcl
11	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sound	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 adults	case
13	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nE	a casual nope					tree rules
2	sound	can	a casual nope					to adults; rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to adult=Experiencer

Option 2

nE-a is a swear word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nE	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 nE	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 nE	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	compound
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

nE-a means yes to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nE	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 nE	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	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
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 adults	case
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	nE					to adults	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot yes=Theme to adult=Attribute

Option 4

His mum doesn't speak Ukrainian, only English and Polish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 English	advmod
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speak	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Polish	cc
11	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 English	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	His mum	Ukrainian					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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