Test 1 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies

my mate says "pes" means pest, so Ukrainians call dogs pests. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, pes, Ukrainians · What happens: say, mean, call · To what, where: pest, dogs pests · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 21 «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pes	punct
5	pes	pes	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pes	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 call	advmod
11	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 call	nsubj
12	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pests	compound
14	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 call	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	12 call	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	pes	pest	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Topic
3	call	present	Ukrainians	dogs pests	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pest=Recipient

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, but only for naughty dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dogs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 dogs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 dogs	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, pes simply means dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 pes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pes	pe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

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

Option 3

No, it's the word for a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod

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

Option 4

Yes, it means pest or nuisance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nuisance	cc
7	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pest	conj

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

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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