Test 1 · Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body

my mate says Ukrainian must have different words for finger and toe, like English. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Ukrainian · What happens: say, have · To what, where: different words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 20 «Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 finger	case
10	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 toe	cc
12	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finger	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 English	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 English	case
15	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 English	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	must	Ukrainian	different words				for finger and toe	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, pAlets means both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 pAlets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pAlets	palet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 means	obj

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

Option 2

No, they have no word for toes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 toes	case
8	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	no word				for toes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 3

Yes, but nobody knows the toe word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 knows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 knows	cc
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	nobody	the toe word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, pAlets is only a finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 finger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pAlets	palet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 finger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 finger	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 finger	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 finger	det
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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