Test 1 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

my mate says whistling indoors really does lose you money. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, whistle, lose · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 says	ccomp
5	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	4 whistling	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 lose	advmod
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 whistling	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lose	obj
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lose	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	8 lose	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	whistle	gerund			indoors property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	present · do-support		you		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, but only in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Ukraine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Ukraine	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Ukraine	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ukraine	case
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, it's proven by banks and scientists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 proven	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proven	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proven	aux:pass
5	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 banks	case
7	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 proven	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scientists	cc
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 banks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive	banks and scientists	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

No, it loses you friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 loses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loses	nsubj
4	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 loses	obj
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	it	you					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a superstition, not a fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 superstition	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 superstition	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 superstition	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 superstition	det
6	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fact	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fact	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fact	det
10	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 superstition	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a superstition and a fact					tree rules

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