Exam question 2 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets

Identify the bird which, in Ukrainian tradition, nests upon village roofs and poles and is regarded as a symbol of home.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Ukrainian tradition · What happens: identify, nest, regard · To what, where: bird, Ukrainian tradition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» 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 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 bird	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tradition	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tradition	case
7	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tradition	amod
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nests	punct
10	nests	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tradition	acl:relcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 roofs	case
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roofs	compound
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nests	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poles	cc
15	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roofs	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 regarded	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 regarded	aux:pass
18	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 nests	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 symbol	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 symbol	det
21	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 regarded	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 symbol	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the bird	Ukrainian tradition		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	nest	present	Ukrainian tradition not said here			upon village roofs and poles	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regard	present · passive	Ukrainian tradition not said here			as a symbol of home	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as symbol=Value

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 hen, "kurka"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct
5	kurka	kurka	X	Foreign=Yes	2 hen	dep
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct

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

Option 2

The swallow, "lastivka"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct
5	lastivka	lastivka	X	Foreign=Yes	2 swallow	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stork, "leleka"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stork	det
2	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stork	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 leleka	punct
5	leleka	leleka	X	_	2 stork	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 leleka	punct

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

Option 4

The rooster, "pIven"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rooster	det
2	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pIven	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pIven	punct
5	pIven	piven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rooster	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pIven	punct

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

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