Exam question 3 · Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between hoLOdnyi and khoLOdnyi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: distinction

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distinction	det
10	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 hoLOdnyi	case
12	hoLOdnyi	hoLOdnyi	X	_	10 distinction	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 khoLOdnyi	cc
14	khoLOdnyi	khoLOdnyi	X	Foreign=Yes	10 distinction	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the distinction				of the following statements; between hoLOdnyi; accurately property	tree rules

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

The former signifies cold and the latter hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 former	det
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signifies	nsubj
3	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signifies	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hungry	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hungry	det
7	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hungry	amod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The former signifies hungry and the latter cold, the two differing by a single sound

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 former	det
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signifies	nsubj
3	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signifies	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cold	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cold	det
7	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cold	amod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hungry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 differing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 differing	nsubj
12	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 signifies	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 sound	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sound	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sound	amod
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 differing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	the former					hungry property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	differ	gerund	the two					by a single sound	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both signify hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 signify	advmod
2	signify	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signify	xcomp

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

Option 4

Both signify full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 signify	advmod
2	signify	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signify	xcomp

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

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