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title: What would happen if you said "z dnem narodzhennya!" on Sashko's bir… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and b… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you said "z dnem narodzhennya!" on Sashko's birthday? Test 9 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 choice was wrong
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# Test 9 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

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What would happen if you said "z dnem narodzhennya!" on Sashko's birthday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, say · **To what, where:** birthday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t9:1
# text = What would happen if you said "z dnem narodzhennya!" on Sashko's birthday?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dnem	dnem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	narodzhennya	narodzhennya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | Sashko's birthday |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He'd think you said Happy Easter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t9:o1:1
# text = He'd think you said Happy Easter
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He'd be offended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t9:o2:1
# text = He'd be offended
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	offended	offend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offend** | would · passive |  | He |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He'd ask for his presents back at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t9:o3:1
# text = He'd ask for his presents back at once
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He'd be pleased and say "DYAkuyu!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays:t9:o4:1
# text = He'd be pleased and say "DYAkuyu!"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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