Test 1 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

my mate says "ya pozhartuvav" means "I'm sorry for swearing". right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, ya pozhartuvav, I · What happens: say, mean, be, swear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 27 «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pozhartuvav	punct
5	ya	ya	X	_	6 pozhartuvav	compound
6	pozhartuvav	pozhartuvav	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pozhartuvav	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sorry	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sorry	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sorry	cop
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 swearing	mark
14	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sorry	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sorry	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	8 means	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	ya pozhartuvav		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	I	sorry property	tree rules
4	swear in a quote	gerund	I not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it means I was joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 joking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joking	aux
7	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 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 clause=Topic
2	joke speech: other	past · progressive	I						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, but only to grannies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grannies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 grannies	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 grannies	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 grannies	case
6	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, it means I'm leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 leaving	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leaving	aux
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 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 clause=Topic
2	leave	present · progressive	I						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, exactly that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 that	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 that	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	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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