Test 8 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

What would happen if you shouted «BAbusya!» across the garden?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, shout · To what, where: BAbusya, garden

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 shouted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shouted	nsubj
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 BAbusya	punct
8	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shouted	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 BAbusya	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 BAbusya	punct
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	you	BAbusya		the garden			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babusya=Topic

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

It would be rude

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	4 rude	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					rude property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She'd understand, but BAbusyu! is the proper calling form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 form	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 BAbusyu	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 BAbusyu	cc
6	BAbusyu	BAbusyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 form	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 form	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 form	amod
11	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 form	compound
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	She	BAbusyu					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		the proper calling form					tree rules

Option 3

Nobody would understand anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Nobody	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

She would think you meant grandad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	past	you	grandad					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandad=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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