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title: You call Sashko "zaichyk" in front of the football team. How does he… — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas… · tree and pragmatics
description: You call Sashko "zaichyk" in front of the football team. How does he feel? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

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You call Sashko "zaichyk" in front of the football team. How does he feel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, he · **What happens:** call, feel · **To what, where:** Sashko zaichyk, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You call Sashko "zaichyk" in front of the football team.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:1
# text = You call Sashko "zaichyk" in front of the football team.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	zaichyk	zaichyk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | You | Sashko zaichyk |  | front of the football team |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent zaichyk=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:* How does he feel?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:2
# text = How does he feel?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **feel** | present · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Angry: it's a swear word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:o1:1
# text = Angry: it's a swear word
1	Angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Proud: it means champion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:o2:1
# text = Proud: it means champion
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Proud | champion |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Embarrassed: it's for little kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:o3:1
# text = Embarrassed: it's for little kids
1	Embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | for Embarrassed little kids | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hungry: it means dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve:t8:o4:1
# text = Hungry: it means dinner
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | dinner |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |

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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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