--- title: Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. What… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas… · tree and pragmatics description: Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. What's true? Test 5 · ★ 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 choice was righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/) / [Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, Ukrainians · **What happens:** say, celebrate, be · **To what, where:** Christmas · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:1 # text = Your mate says all Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on 7 January. 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 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 Ukrainians Ukrainian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 celebrate celebrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 clause=Topic | | 2 | **celebrate** | present | all Ukrainians | Christmas | | | january | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:2 # text = What's true? 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 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Ukraine has no Christmas ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:o1:1 # text = Ukraine has no Christmas 1 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Ukraine | no Christmas | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Everyone on 1 January ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:o2:1 # text = Everyone on 1 January 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Officially 25 December since 2023; some families keep 7 January ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:o3:1 # text = Officially 25 December since 2023; some families keep 7 January 1 Officially officially ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 since since ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obj _ _ 11 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | some families | 25 December since 2023 | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Everyone on 7 January only ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t5:o4:1 # text = Everyone on 7 January only 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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