Test 8 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)
Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz". What's the smart move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, smart move · What happens: dare, jump off, call, be · To what, where: you, high wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 dares | nsubj |
| 2 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 dares | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 jump | mark |
| 5 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dares | xcomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 jump | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wall | amod |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jump | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calls | cc |
| 11 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dares | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 calls | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boyahuz | punct |
| 14 | boyahuz | boyahuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calls | xcomp |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boyahuz | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | Someone | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | jump off | to-infinitive | Someone not said here | a high wall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | call | present | Someone not said here | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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's the smart move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smart move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Say "ya ne boiusya" and still don't jump
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boiusya | punct |
| 3 | ya | ya | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boiusya | amod |
| 4 | ne | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boiusya | compound |
| 5 | boiusya | boiusya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 boiusya | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jump | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 jump | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 jump | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 jump | advmod |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | ya ne boiusya | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boiusya=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not jump | present · do-support | you not said here | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Push them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Push | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 3
Jump to prove them wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 prove | mark |
| 3 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Jump | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prove | obj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prove | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | you not said here | them = they | wrong property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4
Cry and call them plaksa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 call | cc |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cry | conj |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | plaksa | plaksa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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