Exam question 1 · Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"

Identify the expression by which a child courteously requests permission to have or to do something.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, request, have, do · To what, where: expression, permission, something

This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 requests	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requests	nsubj
8	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	9 requests	advmod
9	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 expression	acl:relcl
10	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requests	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 requests	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 do	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	request	present	a child	permission	by the expression; courteously property	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	to-infinitive	a child not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	do	to-infinitive	a child not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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

kydAi!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kydAi	kydAi	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 kydAi	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

mozhna ...?, preferably accompanied by BUD laska

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mozhna	mozhna	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	...	...	PUNCT	_	1 mozhna	punct
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mozhna	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 accompanied	punct
5	preferably	preferably	ADV	_	6 accompanied	advmod
6	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 mozhna	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 BUD	case
8	BUD	BUD	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accompanied	obl
9	laska	laska	X	Foreign=Yes	8 BUD	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle		mozhna not said here				by BUD; preferably property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by bud=Destination

Option 3

nu!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nu	nu	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 nu	punct

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

Option 4

daVAI!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	daVAI	daVAI	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 daVAI	punct

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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