Test 1 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)

my mate thinks durnyk is always a horrible insult. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, durnyk · What happens: think, be · To what, where: horrible insult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 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	durnyk	durnyk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 insult	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 insult	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 insult	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 insult	det
8	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 insult	amod
9	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 insult	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	3 thinks	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	my mate						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	durnyk	a horrible insult				always 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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it means clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, between friends laughing it's a friendly tease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 friends	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 friends	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tease	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tease	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tease	det
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tease	amod
10	tease	tease	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	friends not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a friendly tease					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and it's a swear word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 word	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 word	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	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 swear word					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, always the worst insult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 insult	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 insult	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 insult	det
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 insult	amod
6	insult	insult	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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