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title: «try means try, like have a go» Which is right? — Calling Mum and Granny; counting one t… · tree and pragmatics
description: «try means try, like have a go» Which is right? Test 2 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

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«try means try, like have a go» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** try, go · **What happens:** mean, try, have, be · **To what, where:** go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:t2:1
# text = «try means try, like have a go» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | try |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a go |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | a go |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, it means attempt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:t2:o1:1
# text = Yes, it means attempt
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | attempt |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, it means tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:t2:o2:1
# text = No, it means tree
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | tree |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it means have a go, like in rugby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:t2:o3:1
# text = Yes, it means have a go, like in rugby
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive |  | a go |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, try (said «trih») means three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:t2:o4:1
# text = No, try (said «trih») means three
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	trih	trih	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | trih |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trih=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  | three |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |

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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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