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title: The cook asks how the borshch is. What makes her smile? — Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" · tree and pragmatics
description: The cook asks how the borshch is. What makes her smile? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"

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The cook asks how the borshch is. What makes her smile?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cook, borshch · **What happens:** ask, be, make, smile · **To what, where:** smile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The cook asks how the borshch is.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:1
# text = The cook asks how the borshch is.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	borshch	borshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | the borshch |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 makes her smile?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:2
# text = What makes her smile?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present |  | borshch's smile |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smile=Product |
| 2 | **smile** |  | borshch |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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NOrmalno, I guess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:o1:1
# text = NOrmalno, I guess
1	NOrmalno	NOrmalno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | present | I |  |  |  |  | NOrmalno *vocative* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ya hoLOdnyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:o2:1
# text = ya hoLOdnyi
1	ya	ya	X	GW	_	0	root	_	_
2	hoLOdnyi	hoLOdnyi	X	FW	_	1	goeswith	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nE-a

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:o3:1
# text = nE-a
1	nE	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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

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SMAchno!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:t8:o4:1
# text = SMAchno!
1	SMAchno	SMAchno	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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