Test 2 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve
Your mate wants to teach you some "matyuky" to say at Sashko's dinner. What happens if you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: want, teach, say, happen, do · To what, where: matyuky, you, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your mate wants to teach you some "matyuky" to say at Sashko's dinner.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 teach | mark |
| 5 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 teach | iobj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 matyuky | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 matyuky | punct |
| 9 | matyuky | matyuky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teach | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 matyuky | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 teach | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dinner | case |
| 14 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Sashko | case |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Your mate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your mate not said here | some matyuky | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient matyuky=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Your mate not said here | Sashko's dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What happens if you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happens | advcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The family, especially the granny, would be shocked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shocked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 granny | punct |
| 4 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 6 granny | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 granny | det |
| 6 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 family | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 family | punct |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shocked | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shocked | aux:pass |
| 10 | shocked | shock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shock | would · passive | the family and the granny | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 2
Everyone laughs and claps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 claps | cc |
| 4 | claps | clap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 laughs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Granny gives you sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Granny | sweets | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sweet=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing, they are nice words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 words | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | nice words | tree rules |
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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