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title: Granny talks fast and you catch nothing. What helps most? — I don't understand — and what's your n… · tree and pragmatics
description: Granny talks fast and you catch nothing. What helps most? Test 2 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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 2 · I don't understand — and what's your name?

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Granny talks fast and you catch nothing. What helps most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Granny, you · **What happens:** talk, catch, help · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is test 2 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Granny talks fast and you catch nothing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:1
# text = Granny talks fast and you catch nothing.
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | Granny |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | present | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 helps most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:2
# text = What helps most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Just nod and say AHA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:o1:1
# text = Just nod and say AHA
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nod	nod	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	AHA	aha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | AHA |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aha=Topic |

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

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ya ne rozuMIyu, shche raz, BUD laska

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:o2:1
# text = ya ne rozuMIyu, shche raz, BUD laska
1	ya	ya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rozuMIyu	rozuMIyu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	shche	shche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	raz	raz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	BUD	BUD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	laska	laska	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ne znAyu, poKA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:o3:1
# text = ne znAyu, poKA
1	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	znAyu	znAyu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	poKA	poKA	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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shcho? shcho? shcho?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:t2:o4:1
# text = shcho? shcho? shcho?
1	shcho	shcho	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	shcho	shcho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	shcho	shcho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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