Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★
A kid asks the head teacher «yak teBE zvut?». What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: head teacher
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: A kid asks the head teacher «yak teBE zvut?».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | compound |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 yak | punct |
| 8 | yak | yak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | conj |
| 9 | teBE | teBE | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 zvut | compound |
| 10 | zvut | zvut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yak | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 zvut | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 zvut | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a kid | the head teacher and yak | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing at all, it is perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 perfect | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perfect | cop |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | perfect property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
teBE is the ty form; to an adult it's yak vas zvut?
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teBE | teBE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 form | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 form | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 form | det |
| 4 | ty | ty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 zvut | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 adult | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adult | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 zvut | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 zvut | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 zvut | cop |
| 12 | yak | yak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 zvut | compound |
| 13 | vas | vas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 zvut | compound |
| 14 | zvut | zvut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | teBE | the ty form and yak vas zvut | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | adult | yak vas zvut | to a adult | tree rules |
Option 3
He should shout «MAmo!» first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shout | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shout | aux |
| 3 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 MAmo | punct |
| 5 | MAmo | mamo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shout | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 MAmo | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 MAmo | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 shout | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | should | He | MAmo | first property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mamo=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He should ask it in English
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 English | case |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | He | it | English | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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