Test 6 · I don't understand — and what's your name?

«grown-ups love it if u say yak vas zvut» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, u, yak vas zvut · What happens: grow, love, say, be · To what, where: it, yak vas zvut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
8	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	advcl
10	yak	yak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 zvut	compound
11	vas	vas	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 zvut	compound
12	zvut	zvut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 zvut	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 zvut	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love in a quote	present	grown ups	it		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	u	yak vas zvut		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zvut=Topic
4	is	present	yak vas zvut		right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kids rarely ask adults that; they use name and father's name or TItko

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	nsubj
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 adults	acl:relcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	nsubj
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	conj
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 name	cc
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 TItko	cc
15	TItko	TItko	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 name	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Kids		adults	rarely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	use	present	Kids = kid	name and father's name or TItko			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	name		father				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Adults must ask the kid first in writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 ask	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 writing	case
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	must	Adults		the kid	writing		first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

Option 3

It is rude to say any name to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	xcomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 adults	case
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		any name	adults				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to adult=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, every kid asks adults their name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 asks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asks	obj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	every kid	adults's name	adults				tree rules
2	name		adults = adult						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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