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title: Why is a rainbow called "veselka"? — Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a rainbow called "veselka"? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 23 «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» 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 5 · ★ · Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows

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Why is a rainbow called "veselka"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rainbow · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** rainbow, veselka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 23 «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» 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/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows:t5:1
# text = Why is a rainbow called "veselka"?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
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	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	veselka	veselka	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a rainbow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a rainbow *not said here* | veselka |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent veselka=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It means "bridge in the sky"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows:t5:o1:1
# text = It means "bridge in the sky"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It | bridge |  |  |  | in the sky | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bridge=Theme in sky=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It means "seven colours"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows:t5:o2:1
# text = It means "seven colours"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is linked to veselyi, cheerful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows:t5:o3:1
# text = It is linked to veselyi, cheerful
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	veselyi	veselyi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **link** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | to veselyi | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to veselyi=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It comes from a word for rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows:t5:o4:1
# text = It comes from a word for rain
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | It |  |  | a word for rain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |

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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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