Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★
A puzzle card: a boy says «sidaite», «vybaCHte» and «DYAkuyu, i vam». Who is he most likely talking to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: puzzle card, card · What happens: say, vam, be · To what, where: sidaite, DYAkuyu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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 puzzle card: a boy says «sidaite», «vybaCHte» and «DYAkuyu, i vam».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 card | det |
| 2 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 card | compound |
| 3 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 sidaite | punct |
| 9 | sidaite | sidaite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 sidaite | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vybaCHte | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 vybaCHte | punct |
| 13 | vybaCHte | vybaCHte | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 says | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 vybaCHte | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 vam | cc |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 DYAkuyu | punct |
| 17 | DYAkuyu | DYAkuyu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vam | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vam | punct |
| 19 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 vam | nsubj |
| 20 | vam | vam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 vam | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a puzzle card | sidaite | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sidaite=Theme vybachte=Manner | ||||
| 2 | vam in a quote | present | a puzzle card = card | DYAkuyu | tree rules |
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: Who is he most likely talking to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 talking | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 talking | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 talking | advmod |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 talking | fixed |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | card | likely, talk property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His best mate, alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 mate | amod |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 mate | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A grown-up, or a group of people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 group | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 grown | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 group | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 group | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 8 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 group | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
His little brother, alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 brother | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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