Exam question 3 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets
It is given that a child wishes to ascertain whether an interlocutor possesses a cat. Select the appropriate enquiry.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, interlocutor, you · What happens: give, wish, ascertain, possess, select · To what, where: It, cat, appropriate enquiry
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a child wishes to ascertain whether an interlocutor possesses a cat.
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 wishes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ascertain | mark |
| 9 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wishes | xcomp |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 possesses | mark |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 interlocutor | det |
| 12 | interlocutor | interlocutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possesses | nsubj |
| 13 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ascertain | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possesses | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish | present | a child | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ascertain not said to happen | to-infinitive | a child not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | possess | present | a interlocutor | a cat | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Select the appropriate enquiry.
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 | 4 enquiry | det |
| 3 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enquiry | amod |
| 4 | enquiry | enquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the appropriate enquiry | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
u tebe ye kit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | u | u | ADV | _ | 4 kit | advmod |
| 2 | tebe | tebe | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 kit | dep |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 kit | compound |
| 4 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kit | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yak teBE zvut?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yak | yak | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | teBE | teBE | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yak | dep |
| 3 | zvut | zvut | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 yak | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 yak | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yak yoho zvut?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yak | yak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | yoho | yoho | ADP | _ | 3 zvut | case |
| 3 | zvut | zvut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yak | nmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 yak | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
de ty zhyvEsh?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 ty | advmod |
| 2 | ty | ty | X | _ | root | root |
| 3 | zhyvEsh | zhyvesh | INTJ | _ | 2 ty | discourse |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ty | 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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