Test 9 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)

Why do kids hate being called "yabeda"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: hate, call · To what, where: yabeda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hate	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	aux
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 yabeda	punct
8	yabeda	yabeda	NOUN	_	6 called	xcomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 yabeda	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present · do-support	kids						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	gerund · passive		yabeda					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means they're stupid at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stupid	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stupid	cop
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stupid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they			school		stupid property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody likes being called a snitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 likes	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snitch	det
6	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	call not said to happen	gerund · passive	Nobody not said here	a snitch					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: snitch=Recipient

Option 3

It means they're ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ugly	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ugly	cop
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they					ugly property	tree rules

Option 4

It means they're poor and have no toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 toys	det
9	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they		poor property	tree rules
3	have	present		no toys		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient

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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