Test 2 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays
Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky. What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, problem · What happens: grab, play, be · To what, where: granny, bytky
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky.
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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabs | nsubj |
| 4 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 granny | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sashko | case |
| 7 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabs | obj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 granny | case |
| 9 | pYsanka | pYsanka | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 granny | flat:foreign |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 play | mark |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grabs | advcl |
| 12 | bytky | bytky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | Your little brother | Sashko's granny | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Your little brother not said here | bytky | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bytky=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 the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
bytky is played only with chocolate eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bytky | bytky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | aux:pass |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 eggs | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eggs | case |
| 6 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eggs | compound |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · passive | bytky | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary egg=Theme |
Option 2
pYsanky are raw eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pYsanky | pYsanky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eggs | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eggs | cop |
| 3 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eggs | amod |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pYsanky | raw eggs | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
pYsanky are art, not for knocking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pYsanky | pYsanky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 art | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 art | cop |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knocking | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knocking | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 knocking | mark |
| 7 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 art | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pYsanky | art | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not knock | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing, that's what they're for
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 what | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 for | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 for | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | 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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