Test 4 · ★★ · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"
Sashko says his dvoYUrIdnyi brat Ivan is coming. Ivan is the son of Sashko's aunt. Who is Ivan to Sashko?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sashko, dvoYUrIdnyi brat, Ivan · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: son, Ivan, Sashko · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Sashko says his dvoYUrIdnyi brat Ivan is coming.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dvoYUrIdnyi | dvoyuridnyi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brat | amod |
| 5 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brat | appos |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sashko | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | Sashko's dvoYUrIdnyi brat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Ivan is the son of Sashko's aunt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 aunt | case |
| 6 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Sashko | case |
| 8 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ivan | the son | of Sashko's aunt | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Who is Ivan to Sashko?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 Ivan | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Ivan | cop |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Sashko | case |
| 5 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ivan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ivan | Sashko | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
His cousin
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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
His younger brother
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 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His godfather
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 godfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | godfather | godfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His uncle, Mum's brother
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 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 4 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mum | case |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | conj |
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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