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title: "u tebe ye kit?" — why does it sound odd in English? — Farm animals, forest animals and pets · tree and pragmatics
description: "u tebe ye kit?" — why does it sound odd in English? Test 7 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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 7 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets

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"u tebe ye kit?" — why does it sound odd in English?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kit · **What happens:** sound · **To what, where:** English

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This is test 7 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t7:1
# text = "u tebe ye kit?" — why does it sound odd in English?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	advmod	_	_
3	tebe	tebe	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	compound	_	_
5	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present · do-support | kit |  |  | English |  | odd *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is literally "cat at me?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t7:o1:1
# text = It is literally "cat at me?"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | It | cat |  |  |  | at me; literally *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is literally "is a cat you?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t7:o2:1
# text = It is literally "is a cat you?"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | It | a cat |  |  |  | literally *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is a word-for-word English phrase

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t7:o3:1
# text = It is a word-for-word English phrase
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is literally "at you is a cat?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t7:o4:1
# text = It is literally "at you is a cat?"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | It |  |  |  |  | at a cat; literally *property* | tree rules |

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