Test 2 · I don't understand — and what's your name?
Granny talks fast and you catch nothing. What helps most?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny, you · What happens: talk, catch, help · To what, where: nothing
This is test 2 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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: Granny talks fast and you catch nothing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | nsubj |
| 2 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 talks | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 catch | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talks | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 catch | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Granny | fast property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | you | nothing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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 helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 helps | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Just nod and say AHA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 nod | advmod |
| 2 | nod | nod | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 nod | conj |
| 5 | AHA | aha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | imperative | you not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | AHA | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aha=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
ya ne rozuMIyu, shche raz, BUD laska
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ya | ya | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 raz | nsubj |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ya | flat:foreign |
| 3 | rozuMIyu | rozuMIyu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ya | flat:foreign |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 raz | punct |
| 5 | shche | shche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raz | compound |
| 6 | raz | raz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 BUD | punct |
| 8 | BUD | BUD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 raz | appos |
| 9 | laska | laska | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 BUD | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ne znAyu, poKA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | znAyu | znAyu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ne | flat:foreign |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poKA | punct |
| 4 | poKA | poKA | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ne | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
shcho? shcho? shcho?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shcho | shcho | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 shcho | compound |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 shcho | punct |
| 3 | shcho | shcho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shcho | compound |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shcho | punct |
| 5 | shcho | shcho | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shcho | punct |
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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