Test 2 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
A kid snarls "kozel" at Sashko's dad in the street. How serious is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: snarl, be · To what, where: kozel, street
This is test 2 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: A kid snarls "kozel" at Sashko's dad in the street.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snarls | nsubj |
| 3 | snarls | snarl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kozel | punct |
| 5 | kozel | kozel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snarls | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kozel | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dad | case |
| 8 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sashko | case |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snarls | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 street | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 street | det |
| 13 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snarls | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 snarls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarl | present | a kid | kozel | the street | at Sashko's dad | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent kozel=Theme at dad=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 serious is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 serious | advmod |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 serious | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 serious | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 serious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | kid | serious property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A real insult, very rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 insult | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 insult | amod |
| 3 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rude | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 rude | advmod |
| 6 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 insult | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A compliment about his beard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 compliment | det |
| 2 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 beard | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beard | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 compliment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A word for "sir"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sir | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A friendly joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 joke | det |
| 2 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joke | amod |
| 3 | 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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