Test 2 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

«try means try, like have a go» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: try, go · What happens: mean, try, have, be · To what, where: go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 try	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 go	det
9	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
11	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	try			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try in a quote	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have in a quote	present		a go		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient
4	is	present	a go		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

Yes, it means attempt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

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

Option 2

No, it means tree

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	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it means have a go, like in rugby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 go	det
7	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rugby	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rugby	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 rugby	case
11	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	infinitive		a go					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, try (said «trih») means three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 try	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	csubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 try	ccomp
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 trih	punct
7	trih	trih	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 trih	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	try	infinitive		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	trih	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trih=Topic
3	mean	present	three	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic

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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