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description: «borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus. What would Sashko's family most likely say? Test 6 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
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# Test 6 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house

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«borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus. What would Sashko's family most likely say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** borshch, kid, family · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:1
# text = «borshch is Russian» says a kid on the bus.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	borshch	borshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | borshch |  |  |  |  | russian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a kid |  |  |  |  |  | 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 would Sashko's family most likely say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:2
# text = What would Sashko's family most likely say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Sashko's family |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That they agree completely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:o1:1
# text = That they agree completely
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | That |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That it is Italian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:o2:1
# text = That it is Italian
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That borshch is a dessert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:o3:1
# text = That borshch is a dessert
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	borshch	borshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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That it is Ukrainian, and UNESCO listed Ukrainian borshch cooking in 2022

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t6:o4:1
# text = That it is Ukrainian, and UNESCO listed Ukrainian borshch cooking in 2022
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	listed	list	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	borshch	borshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | ukrainian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **list** | past | UNESCO | Ukrainian borshch cooking |  | 2022 |  |  | tree rules |

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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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