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title: You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smil… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics
description: You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form. What is it? Test 10 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Test 10 · The big language quiz

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You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form. What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, friend, calling form · **What happens:** call, smile, say, be · **To what, where:** Мама, Ukrainian playground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:1
# text = You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Мама	Мама	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	calling	calling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | You |  | Мама | a Ukrainian playground |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent мама=Recipient |
| 2 | **smile** | present | your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the calling form |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:2
# text = What is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Мамо!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:o1:1
# text = Мамо!
1	Мамо	Мамо	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Мамою!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:o2:1
# text = Мамою!
1	Мамою	Мамою	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Мами!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:o3:1
# text = Мами!
1	Мами	Мами	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Маму!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:t10:o4:1
# text = Маму!
1	Маму	Маму	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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**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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