Test 4 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
oi zhadIba, give us one. What does the kid want?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oi, kid · What happens: give, want · To what, where: one, us
This is test 4 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: oi zhadIba, give us one.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | zhadIba | zhadIba | PROPN | _ | 1 oi | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | oi | one | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient one=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 does the kid want?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kid | det |
| 4 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | the kid | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
You to leave him alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 leave | mark |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | to-infinitive | You | him = he | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
You to stop talking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 stop | mark |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | You | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | You not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
You to share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 share | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 share | mark |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | to-infinitive | You | tree rules |
Option 4
You to say sorry to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 say | mark |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | to-infinitive | You | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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