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title: Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule".… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule". What is the polite thing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 2 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

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Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule". What is the polite thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, superstition, granny, polite thing · **What happens:** say, be, ignore, rule · **To what, where:** rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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/30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:1
# text = Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule".
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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a superstition |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ignore** *in a quote* | infinitive | a superstition *not said here* | granny's rule |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | granny |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the polite thing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:2
# text = What is the polite thing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 polite thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Argue with granny until she agrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:o1:1
# text = Argue with granny until she agrees
1	Argue	argue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with granny | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with granny=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Follow the house rule anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:o2:1
# text = Follow the house rule anyway
1	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the house rule |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leave the house and never come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:o3:1
# text = Leave the house and never come back
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Whistle louder to prove her wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:t2:o4:1
# text = Whistle louder to prove her wrong
1	Whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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