Test 10 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
Sashko's mum hears you say "lokh" and frowns. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, you · What happens: hear, say, frown · To what, where: lokh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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
Sentence 1: Sashko's mum hears you say "lokh" and frowns.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hears | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lokh | punct |
| 8 | lokh | lokh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lokh | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 frowns | cc |
| 11 | frowns | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Sashko's mum | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | lokh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lokh=Topic | ||||
| 3 | frown | present | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's rude street slang she dislikes
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 slang | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slang | cop |
| 3 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slang | amod |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slang | compound |
| 5 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dislikes | nsubj |
| 7 | dislikes | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slang | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | rude street slang | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dislike | present | she | rude street slang not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slang=Stimulus |
Option 2
She thinks you said "lock"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lock | punct |
| 6 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It means "lazy"
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 lazy | punct |
| 4 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | lazy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lazy=Topic |
Option 4
It's a swear word about mums
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 | 's | 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 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | compound |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 mums | case |
| 7 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a swear word | about mums | 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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