Test 10 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

Why do Ukrainian grannies love "yak vashe zdorov'ya?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ukrainian grannies · What happens: do, love · To what, where: yak vashe zdorov'ya

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	advcl
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grannies	amod
4	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 zdorov'ya	punct
7	yak	yak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 zdorov'ya	compound
8	vashe	vashe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 zdorov'ya	compound
9	zdorov'ya	zdorov'ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 zdorov'ya	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 zdorov'ya	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Ukrainian grannies not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	love	present	Ukrainian grannies	yak vashe zdorov'ya					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer zdorov'ya=Stimulus

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

It is a joke question

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	5 question	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 question	compound
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke question					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It shows you care about them

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
4	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	care	present	you					about them = they	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus

Option 3

It means "you look old" in a nice way

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	present	you					in a nice way; old property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme

Option 4

It asks for sweets

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	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 sweets	case
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	It					for sweets	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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