Exam question 2 · Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"

Select the response consistent with the established meaning of sik, notwithstanding its resemblance to an English word.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, notwithstand, mean · To what, where: response, resemblance, sik

This is exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sik	case
10	sik	sik	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 notwithstanding	punct
12	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Select	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 resemblance	nmod:poss
14	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notwithstanding	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 word	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
17	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 word	amod
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notwithstanding	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	notwithstand	gerund	you not said here	sik's resemblance	to a English word	tree rules
4	mean			sik		nom meaning «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

It signifies the number six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 number	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	the number					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme

Option 2

It signifies illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	illness					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot illness=Theme

Option 3

It signifies soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	soup					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot soup=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It signifies juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	It	juice					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot juice=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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