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title: «sik means sick, don't drink it» Which is right? — Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" · tree and pragmatics
description: «sik means sick, don't drink it» Which is right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» 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 1 · ★ · Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"

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«sik means sick, don't drink it» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sik · **What happens:** mean, not drink, be · **To what, where:** sik · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» 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/12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t1:1
# text = «sik means sick, don't drink it» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sik	sik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | sik |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | sik *not said here* | sik |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **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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No, it means milk from a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t1:o1:1
# text = No, it means milk from a cow
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | milk |  |  |  | from a cow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, it's medicine for a cough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, it's medicine for a cough
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, sik means juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t1:o3:1
# text = No, sik means juice
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sik	sik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | sik | juice |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it means ill in bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, it means ill in bed
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

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