Test 4 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays
Sashko's granny says "KhrystOs voskrEs!" and you answer "SlAvimo Yoho!". What went wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granny, you · What happens: say, answer, go · To what, where: KhrystOs voskrEs, SlAvimo Yoho · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: Sashko's granny says "KhrystOs voskrEs!" and you answer "SlAvimo Yoho!".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 voskrEs | punct |
| 6 | KhrystOs | Khrysto | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 voskrEs | compound |
| 7 | voskrEs | voskre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 voskrEs | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 voskrEs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 answer | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 answer | nsubj |
| 12 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yoho | punct |
| 14 | SlAvimo | SlAvimo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yoho | compound |
| 15 | Yoho | Yoho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answer | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yoho | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yoho | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sashko's granny | KhrystOs voskrEs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voskre=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | you | SlAvimo Yoho | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yoho=Eventuality |
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 went wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, it's right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | right property | tree rules |
Option 2
You should say "z NOvym rOkom!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 z | punct |
| 5 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | NOvym | NOvym | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rOkom | nsubj |
| 7 | rOkom | rOkom | PROPN | _ | 5 z | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | You | z | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent z=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
That's the Christmas answer; Easter needs "VoIstynu voskrEs!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | compound |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 needs | punct |
| 7 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | nsubj |
| 8 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 voskrEs | punct |
| 10 | VoIstynu | VoIstynu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 voskrEs | compound |
| 11 | voskrEs | voskre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 needs | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 voskrEs | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 needs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the Christmas answer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Easter | VoIstynu voskrEs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot voskre=Theme |
Option 4
You should say "DYAkuyu"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 DYAkuyu | punct |
| 5 | DYAkuyu | DYAkuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 DYAkuyu | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | You | DYAkuyu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dyakuyu=Topic |
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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