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title: shut up, that's not funny, says Sashko after a mean joke. What could… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas… · tree and pragmatics
description: shut up, that's not funny, says Sashko after a mean joke. What could you say to fix it? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 27 «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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 cho
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# Test 10 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

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shut up, that's not funny, says Sashko after a mean joke. What could you say to fix it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, that, Sashko · **What happens:** shut up, not be, say, fix · **To what, where:** joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 27 «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* shut up, that's not funny, says Sashko after a mean joke.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:1
# text = shut up, that's not funny, says Sashko after a mean joke.
1	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sashko |  |  |  | after a mean joke |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 could you say to fix it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:2
# text = What could you say to fix it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | joke |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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ne lai!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:o1:1
# text = ne lai!
1	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	lai	lai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sam takYi!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:o2:1
# text = sam takYi!
1	sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	takYi	takYi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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prykolno!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:o3:1
# text = prykolno!
1	prykolno	prykolno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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ya pozhartuvav, proBAch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t10:o4:1
# text = ya pozhartuvav, proBAch
1	ya	ya	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	pozhartuvav	pozhartuvav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	proBAch	probach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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