Test 11 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
You ask "ty shcho, durnyi?" angrily to a kid you don't know. How might he take it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, kid · What happens: ask, not know, take · To what, where: kid, it
This is test 11 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: You ask "ty shcho, durnyi?" angrily to a kid you don't know.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ty | punct |
| 4 | ty | ty | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 kid | nsubj |
| 5 | shcho | shcho | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ty | flat:foreign |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 durnyi | punct |
| 7 | durnyi | durnyi | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ty | flat:foreign |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ty | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ty | punct |
| 10 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 13 kid | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 kid | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kid | det |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kid | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | You | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | a kid not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus |
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: How might he take it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | might | kid | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
As an insult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 insult | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 insult | det |
| 3 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
As a compliment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 compliment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 compliment | det |
| 3 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
As a greeting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 greeting | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 greeting | det |
| 3 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
As a friendly joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 joke | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 joke | det |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joke | amod |
| 4 | joke | joke | 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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