Test 3 · ★★ · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

«Sashko calls his own mum ty, so I can too» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sashko · What happens: call, be · To what, where: own mum ty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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	_	3 calls	punct
2	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ty	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ty	amod
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ty	compound
7	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 can	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 can	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 calls	xcomp
12	too	too	ADV	_	11 can	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 calls	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	3 calls	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert in a quote	present	Sashko	Sashko's own mum ty					tree rules
2	is	present						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

No, nobody ever says ty to a mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 says	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 says	advmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mum	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mum	det
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	nobody	ty	a mum		ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ty=Topic to mum=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some families let their kids say ty, but a guest uses vy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kids	nmod:poss
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	xcomp
7	ty	ty	INTJ	_	6 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 uses	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 uses	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 guest	det
11	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	nsubj
12	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
13	vy	vy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	present	some families		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	families's kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ty=Topic
3	use	present	a guest	vy	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vy=Patient

Option 3

Yes, a guest always copies the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 copies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guest	det
4	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copies	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 copies	advmod
6	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	a guest	the kids				always property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

Option 4

Yes, ty is polite to all mums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mums	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mums	det
8	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 polite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ty					to all mums; polite property	tree rules

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