Test 5 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve
Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Ukrainians · What happens: say, celebrate, be · To what, where: Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January.
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 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Ukrainians | det |
| 5 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 celebrate | nsubj |
| 6 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrate | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 January | case |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 January | nummod |
| 10 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrate | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | present | all Ukrainians | Christmas | january | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Ukraine has no Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 Christmas | det |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ukraine | no Christmas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient |
Option 2
Everyone on 1 January
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 January | case |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 January | nummod |
| 4 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Everyone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Officially 25 December since 2023; some families keep 7 January
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Officially | officially | ADV | _ | 2 25 | advmod |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 keep | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 2023 | case |
| 5 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 25 | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 families | det |
| 8 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | some families | 25 December since 2023 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Theme |
Option 4
Everyone on 7 January only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 7 | case |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Everyone | nmod |
| 4 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Everyone | advmod |
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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