Test 9 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners
Your bag goes on the dinner table and granny frowns. Best move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bag · What happens: go · To what, where: dinner table
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your bag goes on the dinner table and granny frowns.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bag | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 table | compound |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 frowns | cc |
| 9 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frowns | compound |
| 10 | frowns | frown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 table | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your bag | the dinner table and granny frowns | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on table=Location |
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: Best move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 move | amod |
| 2 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Put your keys on it too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 keys | nmod:poss |
| 3 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your keys | it | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme on it=Destination |
Option 2
Ask for more soup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 soup | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 soup | amod |
| 4 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | for more soup | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Explain it's a myth and leave it there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 myth | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 myth | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 myth | det |
| 5 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Explain | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 leave | cc |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Explain | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a myth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | myth | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Put it on the floor or a chair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 chair | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chair | det |
| 8 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | the floor or a chair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on floor=Destination |
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