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title: In a story a boy says «tse miy druh» about a girl. What should it be? — How old are you, where from, and meet… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a story a boy says «tse miy druh» about a girl. What should it be? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 5 «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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 · ★ · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

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In a story a boy says «tse miy druh» about a girl. What should it be?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 5 «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a story a boy says «tse miy druh» about a girl.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:1
# text = In a story a boy says «tse miy druh» about a girl.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	miy	miy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	druh	druh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy |  |  | a story |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in story=Manner |

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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 should it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:2
# text = What should it be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	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 | **be** | should | miy |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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tse miy druha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:o1:1
# text = tse miy druha
1	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	miy	miy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	druha	druha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tse miy podRUh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:o2:1
# text = tse miy podRUh
1	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	miy	miy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	podRUh	podruh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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tse moya druh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:o3:1
# text = tse moya druh
1	tse	tse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	moya	moya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	druh	druh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

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tse moya podRUha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:t9:o4:1
# text = tse moya podRUha
1	tse	tse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	moya	moya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
3	podRUha	podRUha	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	2	flat	_	_
```

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

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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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