Exam question 4 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house

Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a guest who declines the offer of sAlo.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, guest · What happens: ascertain, decline, conduct, offer · To what, where: appropriate conduct, offer, guest, sAlo

This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» of the Ukrainian street 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	4 conduct	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 guest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 guest	det
7	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conduct	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 declines	nsubj
9	declines	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 guest	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 offer	det
11	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declines	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sAlo	case
13	sAlo	sAlo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 offer	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate conduct of a guest	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
2	decline	present	a guest	the offer of sAlo	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
3	conduct			a guest	nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient
4	offer			sAlo	nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Consumption of the dish under protest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 dish	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dish	det
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Consumption	nmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 protest	case
6	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			the dish under protest					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

An expression of disgust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 expression	det
2	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 disgust	case
4	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expression	nmod

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

Option 3

Immediate departure from the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 departure	amod
2	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 departure	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A courteous refusal such as ni, DYAkuyu, which is entirely acceptable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 refusal	det
2	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 refusal	amod
3	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 DYAkuyu	nsubj
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 ni	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refusal	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 DYAkuyu	punct
8	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 acceptable	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 acceptable	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 acceptable	cop
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 acceptable	advmod
13	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 DYAkuyu	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	DYAkuyu					acceptable, entirely property	tree rules

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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