Test 1 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

my mate says Carol of the Bells is an old English song. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Carol · What happens: say, be · To what, where: old English song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 28 «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 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	Carol	Carol	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 song	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Bells	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bells	det
7	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Carol	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 song	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 song	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 song	amod
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 song	amod
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 song	punct
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Carol of the Bells	a old English song					tree rules

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

Yes, it was written in London for a church choir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 written	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 written	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 choir	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 choir	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 choir	compound
11	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		it		London		for a church choir	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in london=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, its tune comes from the Ukrainian ShchedrYk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tune	nmod:poss
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 ShchedrYk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ShchedrYk	det
8	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ShchedrYk	amod
9	ShchedrYk	ShchedrYk	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	its tune			the Ukrainian ShchedrYk			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shchedryk=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, by a church choir in York

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 choir	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 choir	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 choir	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 choir	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choir	compound
6	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 York	case
8	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 choir	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, it is from Germany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Germany	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Germany	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Germany	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Germany	case
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			Germany			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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