Test 4 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies
Your mate thinks "sinYak" comes from "sin", like a punishment. Where does it really come from?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, sinYak · What happens: think, come, be · To what, where: sin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your mate thinks "sinYak" comes from "sin", like a punishment.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinYak | punct |
| 5 | sinYak | sinyak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinYak | punct |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sin | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sin | punct |
| 10 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sin | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 punishment | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 punishment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 punishment | det |
| 15 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Your mate | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | sinYak | sin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sin=Initial_Location |
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: Where does it really come from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | aux |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 come | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A word for falling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 falling | mark |
| 4 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 word | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | a word not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A punishment word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
syniy, the colour blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | syniy | syniy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blue | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | compound |
| 5 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 syniy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A word for doctor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 doctor | case |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
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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