Test 8 · Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body
Sashko giggles "puzyko" at his baby brother. Is it a rude swear word?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sashko, puzyko · What happens: giggle, be · To what, where: puzyko, rude swear word
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Sashko giggles "puzyko" at his baby brother.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 giggles | nsubj |
| 2 | giggles | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 puzyko | punct |
| 4 | puzyko | puzyko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giggles | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 puzyko | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | compound |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giggles | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 giggles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | present | Sashko | puzyko | at Sashko's baby brother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzyko=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Is it a rude swear word?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 word | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 5 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | compound |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | puzyko | a rude swear word | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No, a cheeky but fine word for belly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 word | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 4 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fine | cc |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cheeky | conj |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 belly | case |
| 9 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, never say it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3
No, it means teeth
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 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | teeth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, a very rude word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 word | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 rude | advmod |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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