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title: Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz". W… — Friendly name-calling and real insults… · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz". What's the smart move? Test 8 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 8 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)

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Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz". What's the smart move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Someone, smart move · **What happens:** dare, jump off, call, be · **To what, where:** you, high wall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:1
# text = Someone dares you to jump off a high wall and calls you "boyahuz".
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	boyahuz	boyahuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | present | Someone | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **jump off** | to-infinitive | Someone *not said here* | a high wall |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **call** | present | Someone *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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's the smart move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:2
# text = What's the smart move?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Say "ya ne boiusya" and still don't jump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:o1:1
# text = Say "ya ne boiusya" and still don't jump
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ya	ya	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boiusya	boiusya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | ya ne boiusya |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boiusya=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **jump** | present · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Push them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:o2:1
# text = Push them
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Jump to prove them wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:o3:1
# text = Jump to prove them wrong
1	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cry and call them plaksa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:t8:o4:1
# text = Cry and call them plaksa
1	Cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	plaksa	plaksa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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