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Test 11 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

Granny says "sidai" to Sashko and "sidaite" to his dad. Why the difference?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny · What happens: say · To what, where: sidai, Sashko · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Granny says "sidai" to Sashko and "sidaite" to his dad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sidai	punct
4	sidai	sidai	X	Foreign=Yes	2 says	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sidai	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sashko	case
7	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sidaite	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sidaite	punct
10	sidaite	sidaite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Sashko	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sidaite	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dad	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sidaite	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Granny	sidai	Sashko and sidaite to his dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sidai=Topic to sashko=Recipient

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: Why the difference?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 difference	det
3	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

sidaite is for girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sidaite	sidaite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 girls	case
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	sidaite					for girls	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sidai means stand, sidaite means sit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sidai	sidai	X	Foreign=Yes	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
5	sidaite	sidaite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	sidai	stand					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Topic
2	mean	present	sidaite						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No difference, it's random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 random	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 difference	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 random	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 random	cop
6	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no difference					random property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sidai to a child, sidaite politely to an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sidai	sidai	X	Foreign=Yes	6 sidaite	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 child	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sidai	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sidaite	punct
6	sidaite	sidaite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 sidaite	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 adult	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sidaite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sidaite	imperative	you not said here					to a adult; politely property	tree rules

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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