Exam question 4 · The big language quiz

State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and the case employed when addressing one's mother.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, case · What happens: state, possess, employ, address · To what, where: number, grammatical cases, mother

This is exam question 4 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cases	case
5	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cases	amod
6	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cases	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Ukrainian	case
9	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 employed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 employed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 case	det
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 employed	nsubj
14	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 addressing	advmod
16	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 employed	advcl
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 one	case
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 addressing	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of grammatical cases			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		grammatical cases not said here		by Ukrainian	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	employ	past	the case				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	address	gerund	the case not said here		one's mother		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Destination

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Three; the nominative

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 nominative	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nominative	det
4	nominative	nominative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Three	appos

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven; the vocative

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 vocative	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vocative	det
4	vocative	vocative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seven	appos

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

Option 3

Twelve; the accusative

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 accusative	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 accusative	det
4	accusative	accusative	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Twelve	appos

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

Option 4

Two; the genitive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 genitive	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 genitive	det
4	genitive	genitive	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	conj

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

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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