Test 11 · ★★ · To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour

«shut up, mEnshe means more» Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shut mEnshe · What happens: shut up, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mEnshe	compound
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
5	mEnshe	menshe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 right	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
9	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	infinitive			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean in a quote	present	shut mEnshe		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
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 · ✓ the right answer

No: mEnshe is less, bIlshe is more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 mEnshe	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mEnshe	menshe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 less	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 less	cop
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bIlshe	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 less	punct
7	bIlshe	bilshe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no mEnshe					less property	tree rules
2	be	present	less bIlshe						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, mEnshe is more, bIlshe is less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mEnshe	menshe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 more	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bIlshe	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 more	punct
7	bIlshe	bilshe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 less	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 less	cop
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mEnshe					more property	tree rules
2	is	present	more bIlshe					less property	tree rules

Option 3

Both mean less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 mean	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Both mean more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 mean	obj

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