Test 3 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve
Sashko says the Christmas Eve supper has twelve dishes, so there's loads of sausage. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sashko, Eve supper, loads · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: twelve dishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Sashko says the Christmas Eve supper has twelve dishes, so there's loads of sausage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 supper | det |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Eve | compound |
| 5 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 supper | compound |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dishes | nummod |
| 9 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 's | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 's | expl |
| 13 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | parataxis |
| 14 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 's | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sausage | case |
| 16 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loads | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sashko | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the Eve supper | twelve dishes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | does | present | loads of sausage | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The twelve dishes are meatless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dishes | det |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 dishes | nummod |
| 3 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meatless | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meatless | cop |
| 5 | meatless | meatless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the twelve dishes | meatless property | tree rules |
Option 2
There are only three dishes on the table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 three | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dishes | nummod |
| 5 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dishes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | three dishes on the table | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It's on New Year's Day
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 | 7 Day | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Day | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Day | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Year | compound |
| 5 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Year | case |
| 7 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | on New Year's Day | tree rules |
Option 4
Sausage is the main dish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dish | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dish | amod |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sausage | the main dish | 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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