Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★
Sashko's sister texts «ya hoLOdnyi, literally dying». What's off, and how hungry is she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: text, die, be · To what, where: ya, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Sashko's sister texts «ya hoLOdnyi, literally dying».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | nsubj |
| 4 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ya | punct |
| 6 | ya | ya | X | _ | 4 texts | obj |
| 7 | hoLOdnyi | hoLOdnyi | X | _ | 6 ya | goeswith |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dying | punct |
| 9 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 10 dying | advmod |
| 10 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 texts | parataxis |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 dying | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | Sashko's sister | ya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | gerund | literally property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 off, and how hungry is she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 's | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hungry | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 What | parataxis |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 she | cop |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | sister | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The boy form is right for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | compound |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the boy form | for everyone; right property | tree rules |
Option 2
She should write khoLOdnyi, which is cold
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 write | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 write | aux |
| 3 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | khoLOdnyi | khoLOdnyi | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 write | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cold | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cold | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cold | cop |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 write | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | should | She | khoLOdnyi | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kholodnyi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cold property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing; she is really dying of hunger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 dying | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dying | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dying | aux |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 dying | advmod |
| 6 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hunger | case |
| 8 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | she | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The girl form is hoLOdna; she's just hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | compound |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hoLOdna | cop |
| 5 | hoLOdna | hoLOdna | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 form | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 form | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hungry | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hungry | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 hungry | advmod |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the girl form | hungry 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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