Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★
«I nearly died when you said ty to Granny!» says Mum. What really happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, you · What happens: die, say, happen · To what, where: ty, Granny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» 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: «I nearly died when you said ty to Granny!» says Mum.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | advcl |
| 8 | ty | ty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Granny | case |
| 10 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | Mum | nearly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | ty | Granny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ty=Topic to granny=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: What really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Mum was shocked, not hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shocked | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shocked | cop |
| 3 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shocked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mum | shocked property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | participle | Mum not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Mum was badly ill all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 3 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ill | advmod |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ill | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mum | day | badly, ill property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Mum laughed and agreed with you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | cc |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Mum | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | Mum not said here | with you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent |
Option 4
Granny fainted on the spot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fainted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | Granny | the spot | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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