Test 6 · ★★ · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

«sim'ya means seven, sim is seven» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sim'ya, sim · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: seven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 means	punct
2	sim'ya	sim'ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seven	punct
6	sim	sim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seven	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seven	cop
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 seven	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 seven	punct
10	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seven	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	sim'ya	seven		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	sim	seven		tree rules
3	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

No, it means summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it				summer		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, a family of exactly seven people, no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 family	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 seven	advmod
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 people	nummod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 family	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 family	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, it's a number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 number	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 number	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 number	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a number					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, sim'yA means family; sim alone is seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sim'yA	sim'ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 seven	punct
7	sim	sim	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seven	nsubj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 sim	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seven	cop
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	sim'yA	family					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic
2	is a	present	sim	seven					tree rules

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