Test 7 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
Sashko's little brother talks nonstop at dinner and their dad laughs: "bAlakun!". How does it sound?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, dad, bAlakun · What happens: talk, laugh, sound · To what, where: nonstop, dinner, bAlakun
This is test 7 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 little brother talks nonstop at dinner and their dad laughs: "bAlakun!".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talks | nsubj |
| 5 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nonstop | nonstop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talks | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talks | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughs | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughs | nsubj |
| 12 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talks | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bAlakun | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bAlakun | punct |
| 15 | bAlakun | balakun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughs | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 bAlakun | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bAlakun | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Sashko's little brother | nonstop | dinner | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonstop=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | present | their dad | bAlakun | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balakun=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: How does it sound?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sound | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present · do-support | bAlakun | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
A real, nasty insult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 insult | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insult | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| 4 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insult | amod |
| 5 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A gentle tease
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tease | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tease | amod |
| 3 | tease | tease | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A rude swear word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 3 | swear | swear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | compound |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A punishment for talking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 punishment | det |
| 2 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 talking | mark |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 punishment | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | a punishment not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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