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title: «holubtsi have doves in them, gross» What is right? — The flag, and what's cooking at the fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: «holubtsi have doves in them, gross» What is right? Test 3 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house

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«holubtsi have doves in them, gross» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** holubtsi · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** doves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t3:1
# text = «holubtsi have doves in them, gross» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	holubtsi	holubtsi	X	FW	_	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
4	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | holubtsi | doves |  |  |  | in doves *= dove* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, real doves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, real doves
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, the name means «little doves», but they are cabbage rolls

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t3:o2:1
# text = No, the name means «little doves», but they are cabbage rolls
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name | little doves |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | doves *= dove* | cabbage rolls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only at Easter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, but only at Easter
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, the name means «little doves», but they are filled with fish

<!-- fold The tree, 12 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t3:o4:1
# text = No, the name means «little doves», but they are filled with fish
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name | little doves |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic |
| 2 | **fill** | present · passive |  | doves *= dove* |  |  |  | with fish | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fish=Instrument |

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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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