Test 8 · ★★ · Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite gu…
oi, where's the loo, says your mate at Sashko's. How should he say it there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi · What happens: be, say · To what, where: loo, mate, Sashko · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas — and the polite guest» 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: oi, where's the loo, says your mate at Sashko's.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loo | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 loo | advmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loo | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 loo | det |
| 6 | loo | loo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 oi | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loo | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mate | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Sashko | case |
| 12 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Sashko | case |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the loo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | oi | your mate | Sashko | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
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: How should he say it there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 say | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | oi | mate | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
vybachte, de tualEt?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vybachte | vybachte | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 tualEt | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tualEt | punct |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 tualEt | compound |
| 4 | tualEt | tualet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tualEt | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
daI tualEt!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daI | daI | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 tualEt | nsubj |
| 2 | tualEt | tualEt | PROPN | _ | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 tualEt | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
kotra hodyna?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kotra | kotra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | hodyna | hodyna | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 kotra | dep |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 kotra | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
de tualEt?! shouted across the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 tualEt | advmod |
| 2 | tualEt | tualEt | PROPN | _ | 4 shouted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle · passive | tualEt | the room | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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