Test 3 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners
What would happen if you said "ty hArno vyhlyadaiesh" to Sashko's granny?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vyhlyadaiesh | punct |
| 8 | ty | ty | INTJ | _ | 10 vyhlyadaiesh | discourse |
| 9 | hArno | harno | PUNCT | _ | 10 vyhlyadaiesh | punct |
| 10 | vyhlyadaiesh | vyhlyadaiesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vyhlyadaiesh | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 granny | case |
| 13 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 granny | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Sashko | case |
| 15 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vyhlyadaiesh | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | 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
She'd find it extra polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | She | it | extra, polite property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2
She'd think you said goodbye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | 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 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
Option 3
She'd think you were asking her age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | 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 | 6 asking | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asking | aux |
| 6 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 age | nmod:poss |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | She | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | you | her age | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It'd sound too casual: use "vy" with elders
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 | 3 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sound | aux |
| 3 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 casual | advmod |
| 5 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sound | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 vy | punct |
| 9 | vy | vy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 vy | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 elders | case |
| 12 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would | It | casual property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | vy | with elders | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vy=Patient |
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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