Test 7 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets

"u tebe ye kit?" — why does it sound odd in English?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kit · What happens: sound · To what, where: English

This is test 7 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kit	punct
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kit	advmod
3	tebe	tebe	X	Foreign=Yes	5 kit	dep
4	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 kit	compound
5	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kit	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kit	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sound	advmod
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sound	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sound	nsubj
12	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kit	parataxis
13	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sound	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 English	case
15	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sound	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present · do-support	kit			English		odd property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is literally "cat at me?"

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 cat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
3	literally	literally	ADV	_	5 cat	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	cat				at me; literally property	tree rules

Option 2

It is literally "is a cat you?"

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	7 cat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cat	cop
3	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 cat	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 literally	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cat	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 cat	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cat	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	a cat				literally property	tree rules

Option 3

It is a word-for-word English phrase

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	4 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 word	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 for	punct
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 phrase	compound
10	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is literally "at you is a cat?"

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	9 cat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	cop
3	literally	literally	ADV	_	9 cat	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 cat	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 cat	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					at a cat; literally property	tree rules

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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