Exam question 2 · Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who

Ascertain the correctly formulated sentence in formal written English.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, formulate, write · To what, where: formulated sentence, formal written English

This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sentence	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 formulated	advmod
4	formulated	formulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sentence	amod
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
7	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 English	amod
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 English	amod
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sentence	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the formulated sentence	formal written English		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Topic
2	formulate	participle				correctly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

My mother gave sweets to I and Ben

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 I	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Ben	cc
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 I	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	My mother	sweets	I				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to i=Recipient

Option 2

My mother gave sweets to Ben and I

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Ben	case
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 I	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Ben	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	My mother	sweets	Ben				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to ben=Recipient

Option 3

My mother gave sweets to Ben and myself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Ben	case
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 myself	cc
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 Ben	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	My mother	sweets	Ben				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme to ben=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

My mother gave sweets to Ben and me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Ben	case
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 me	cc
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	My mother	sweets	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sweet=Theme

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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