Test 7 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies

why is "kit" funny for English kids?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kit · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kit	punct
4	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 funny	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kit	punct
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 kids	case
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kids	amod
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 funny	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	kit					for English kids; funny property	tree rules

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

It sounds like "kite" and means a kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 kite	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kite	punct
5	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kite	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 means	cc
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sounds	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kite	det
10	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					like kite	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present		a kite					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Topic

Option 2

It is a rude word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It sounds like the English word "kit"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kit	punct
8	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					like the English word	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It means "kid"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kid	punct
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 kid	punct

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

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