Test 11 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

Why would it be odd to wish "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" in July?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: KhrystOs

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 odd	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 odd	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 odd	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 odd	cop
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wish	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wish	mark
7	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 KhrystOs	punct
9	KhrystOs	Khrysto	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 wish	obj
10	rodYvsya	rodYvsya	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wish	flat:foreign
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 July	case
14	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wish	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					odd property	tree rules
2	wish	to-infinitive		KhrystOs			july		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot khrysto=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means good night and sleep well

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	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleep	cc
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It				night		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present						well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is a birthday wish

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	5 wish	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wish	det
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wish	compound
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a birthday wish					tree rules

Option 3

It is only for Easter

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	5 Easter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Easter	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 Easter	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Easter	case
5	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for Easter	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is a Christmas greeting

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	5 greeting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeting	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 greeting	det
4	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 greeting	compound
5	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a Christmas greeting					tree rules

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