Exam question 4 · Football, wait, let's play and bagsy

Ascertain the result designated by nIchyia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, designate · To what, where: result

This is exam question 4 of lesson 15 «Football, wait, let's play and bagsy» 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	3 result	det
3	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 result	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 nIchyia	case
6	nIchyia	nIchyia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designated	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the result					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Topic
2	designate	participle		the result not said here				by nIchyia	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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

A penalty awarded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	awarded	award	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 penalty	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	award	participle		a penalty not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A game abandoned by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 game	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abandoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	participle		a game not said here			night		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A victory by a single goal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 victory	det
2	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 goal	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goal	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goal	amod
6	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 victory	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A drawn game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 game	amod
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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