Test 6 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies
In a story, the hero is told to "staty na kolina" before the king. What must he do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: hero, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: In a story, the hero is told to "staty na kolina" before the king.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kolina | mark |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kolina | punct |
| 11 | staty | staty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kolina | compound |
| 12 | na | na | X | _ | 13 kolina | compound |
| 13 | kolina | kolina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kolina | punct |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the hero | a story | before the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: What must he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | hero | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Run away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Sit on a chair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 chair | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chair | det |
| 4 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | a chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |
Option 3
Shake hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shake | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Kneel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kneel | kneel | 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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