Test 7 · ★ · Please, thank you, sorry, okay

What would happen if you said DYAka, not DYAkuyu, to the friend's grandad for a present?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	DYAka	DYAka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 DYAkuyu	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 DYAkuyu	advmod
10	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 DYAka	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grandad	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 grandad	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 friend	det
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grandad	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 friend	case
16	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 present	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 present	det
19	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grandad	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the friend's grandad for a present	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

He would take the present back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 present	det
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	would	He	the present					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing terrible, but the full DYAkuyu sounds nicer to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 sounds	nsubj
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sounds	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 DYAkuyu	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 DYAkuyu	amod
7	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	nsubj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sounds	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Nothing		DYAkuyu			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would be a swear word to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 word	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a swear word	him = he				tree rules

Option 4

He would think you said sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: apologize	past	you					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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