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Test 7 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas. What are they doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: knock, sing, do · To what, where: Christmas

This is test 7 · ★ 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's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friends	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sashko	case
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knock	nsubj
4	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 door	nmod:poss
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knock	obl
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 knock	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Christmas	case
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 singing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	Sashko's friends					at your door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Sashko's friends not said here			Christmas			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location

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 are they doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	friends = friend						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Selling sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		sweets					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Singing kolyadky, carolling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	kolyadky	kolyadky	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Singing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carolling	punct
4	carolling	carolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kolyadky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		kolyadky and carolling					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kolyadky=Theme

Option 3

Collecting homework for the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collecting	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 teacher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collecting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	gerund		homework				for the teacher	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Asking for directions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 directions	case
3	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for directions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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