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title: «pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says. What will it… — The flag, and what's cooking at the fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: «pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says. What will it taste like? Test 9 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 
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# Test 9 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house

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«pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says. What will it taste like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** smetAna, mate · **What happens:** pour on, be, say, taste · **To what, where:** smetAna · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:1
# text = «pour the smetAna on, it's like cream» your mate says.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smetAna	smetana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the smetAna |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smetana=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | smetAna |  |  |  |  | like cream | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 will it taste like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:2
# text = What will it taste like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | future | smetAna |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Sweet like whipped cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:o1:1
# text = Sweet like whipped cream
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	whipped	whip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like vanilla custard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:o2:1
# text = Like vanilla custard
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	custard	custard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like chocolate sauce

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:o3:1
# text = Like chocolate sauce
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sour, not sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:t9:o4:1
# text = Sour, not sweet
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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