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title: In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a ques… — Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question. What would be better? Test 9 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 
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# Test 9 · Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no

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In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question. What would be better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon boy, she · **What happens:** say, ask, be · **To what, where:** queen, game, question · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:1
# text = In a game a cartoon boy says «AHA» to the queen when she asks a question.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	AHA	aha	INTJ	UH	_	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon boy |  | the queen | a game |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | she | a question |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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 be better?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:2
# text = What would be better?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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zdorOv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:o1:1
# text = zdorOv
1	zdorOv	zdorOv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ni-ni

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:o2:1
# text = ni-ni
1	ni	ni	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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tak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:o3:1
# text = tak
1	tak	tak	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 {#o4}

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nE-a

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no:t9:o4:1
# 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.

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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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