Exam question 4 · Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow

Identify the enquiry by which one seeks to ascertain the hour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: identify, seek, ascertain · To what, where: enquiry

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 enquiry	det
3	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 seeks	mark
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeks	nsubj
7	seeks	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ascertain	mark
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seeks	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ascertain	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the enquiry		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme
2	seek	present	which one			tree rules
3	ascertain not said to happen	to-infinitive	which one not said here		hour	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

kotra hodyna?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kotra	kotra	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	hodyna	hodyna	X	Foreign=Yes	1 kotra	dep
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 kotra	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

shcho stAlosya?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shcho	shcho	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	stAlosya	stAlosya	X	Foreign=Yes	1 shcho	flat:foreign
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shcho	punct

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

Option 4

yaka pohOda?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yaka	yaka	X	_	2 pohOda	compound
2	pohOda	pohoda	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pohOda	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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