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title: Your mate says "lito" is winter because "it's a little season". What… — What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate says "lito" is winter because "it's a little season". What's lito? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» 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 · ★★★ · What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons

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Your mate says "lito" is winter because "it's a little season". What's lito?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** lito winter, little season, lito · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» 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/25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate says "lito" is winter because "it's a little season".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:1
# text = Your mate says "lito" is winter because "it's a little season".
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	lito	lito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | lito winter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mate | a little season |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's lito?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:2
# text = What's lito?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lito	lito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:o1:1
# text = Spring
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	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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Winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:o2:1
# text = Winter
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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Summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:o3:1
# text = Summer
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons:t8:o4:1
# text = Autumn
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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