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title: Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky. W… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky. What's the problem? Test 2 of lesson 28 «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» 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 choi
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# Test 2 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

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Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky. What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little brother, problem · **What happens:** grab, play, be · **To what, where:** granny, bytky

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This is test 2 of lesson 28 «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» 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/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:1
# text = Your little brother grabs Sashko's granny's pYsanka to play bytky.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	pYsanka	pYsanka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	bytky	bytky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | present | Your little brother | Sashko's granny |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Your little brother *not said here* | bytky |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bytky=Theme |

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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 problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:2
# text = What's the problem?
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	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	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 problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bytky is played only with chocolate eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:o1:1
# text = bytky is played only with chocolate eggs
1	bytky	bytky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · passive |  | bytky |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary egg=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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pYsanky are raw eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:o2:1
# text = pYsanky are raw eggs
1	pYsanky	pYsanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eggs	egg	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 a** | present | pYsanky | raw eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pYsanky are art, not for knocking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:o3:1
# text = pYsanky are art, not for knocking
1	pYsanky	pYsanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | pYsanky | art |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **knock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, that's what they're for

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, that's what they're for
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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