Exam question 1 · Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow

Ascertain the action required of a guest when the grandmother of the household pronounces "odYahnysya!" at the threshold.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, grandmother · What happens: ascertain, require, pronounce · To what, where: action, odYahnysya, threshold

This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» 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 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 action	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 guest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 guest	det
7	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 pronounces	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandmother	det
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pronounces	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 household	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 household	det
13	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandmother	nmod
14	pronounces	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 odYahnysya	punct
16	odYahnysya	odYahnysya	X	Foreign=Yes	14 pronounces	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 odYahnysya	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 odYahnysya	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 threshold	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 threshold	det
21	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pronounces	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the action			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Topic
2	require	participle		the action not said here		of a guest	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	pronounce	present	the grandmother of the household	odYahnysya	the threshold		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odyahnysya=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The removal of outer garments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 garments	case
4	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garments	amod
5	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 removal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			outer garments					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The removal of footwear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 footwear	case
4	footwear	footwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			footwear					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The donning of outer garments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donning	det
2	donning	donning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 garments	case
4	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garments	amod
5	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 donning	nmod

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

Option 4

The washing of the hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 washing	det
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hands	det
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 washing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash			the hands					nom washing «act transitive»: of=patient

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