Exam question 3 · What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons

Identify the enquiry appropriate to the fixing of the hour of a prospective meeting.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, fix · To what, where: enquiry, hour

This is exam question 3 of lesson 25 «What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons» 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	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fixing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fixing	det
7	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixing	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 meeting	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 meeting	det
13	prospective	prospective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meeting	amod
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hour	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the enquiry				appropriate property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme
2	fix			the hour of a prospective meeting					nom fixing «act transitive»: of=patient

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

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 2

shcho NOvoho?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shcho	shcho	X	Foreign=Yes	2 NOvoho	advmod
2	NOvoho	NOvoho	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 NOvoho	punct

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

Option 3

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 4 · ✓ the right answer

o kotriy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	o	o	X	Foreign=Yes	2 kotriy	compound
2	kotriy	kotriy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 kotriy	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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