Test 3 · ★ · Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows
In a cartoon a Ukrainian dog barks "woof-woof". What would a Ukrainian kid expect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukrainian dog, Ukrainian kid · What happens: bark, expect · To what, where: woof woof, cartoon
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 23 «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» 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 cartoon a Ukrainian dog barks "woof-woof".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barks | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barks | nsubj |
| 7 | barks | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 woof | punct |
| 9 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woof | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 woof | punct |
| 11 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barks | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 woof | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 barks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | present | a Ukrainian dog | woof woof | a cartoon | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent woof=Theme |
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 would a Ukrainian kid expect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 expect | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 expect | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 expect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | would | a Ukrainian kid | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
ku-ku-ri-ku
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ku | ku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ku | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 ku | punct |
| 3 | ku | ku | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ri | punct |
| 5 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ku | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ri | punct |
| 7 | ku | ku | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 ku | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
woof-woof is the same in every language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woof | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 woof | punct |
| 3 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 same | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 same | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 language | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 language | det |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 same | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | woof woof | every language | same property | tree rules |
Option 3
myAu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | myAu | myAu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
hav-hav
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hav | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hav | punct |
| 3 | hav | hav | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 hav | compound |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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