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title: Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas. What are t… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas. What are they doing? Test 7 · ★ 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 wr
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# Test 7 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

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Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas. What are they doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** knock, sing, do · **To what, where:** Christmas

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:1
# text = Sashko's friends knock at your door singing at Christmas.
1	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | present | Sashko's friends |  |  |  |  | at your door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Sashko's friends *not said here* |  |  | Christmas |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location |

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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 are they doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:2
# text = What are they doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Selling sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:o1:1
# text = Selling sweets
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | sweets |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Singing kolyadky, carolling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:o2:1
# text = Singing kolyadky, carolling
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	kolyadky	kolyadky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	carolling	carolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | kolyadky and carolling |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kolyadky=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Collecting homework for the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:o3:1
# text = Collecting homework for the teacher
1	Collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | gerund |  | homework |  |  |  | for the teacher | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Asking for directions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t7:o4:1
# text = Asking for directions
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for directions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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