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title: «ni means knee in ukrainian lol» Which is right? — Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no · tree and pragmatics
description: «ni means knee in ukrainian lol» Which is right? Test 1 of lesson 2 «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» 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 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«ni means knee in ukrainian lol» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ni, ukrainian lol · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** knee

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This is test 1 of lesson 2 «Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no» 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/2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t1:1
# text = «ni means knee in ukrainian lol» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | ni | knee |  |  |  | in ukrainian lol | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot knee=Theme in lol=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | ukrainian lol |  |  |  |  | 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, and it also means leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, and it also means leg
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, ni is the body part, the bend in your leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, ni is the body part, the bend in your leg
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ni | the body part and the bend in your leg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, ni means no; it only sounds like «knee»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t1:o3:1
# text = No, ni means no; it only sounds like «knee»
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ni	ni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | ni |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | it |  |  |  |  | like knee | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, ni means yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t1:o4:1
# text = No, ni means yes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ni	ni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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

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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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