Exam question 2 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)

Identify the conventional retort to name-calling, as employed by a boy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, name, call, employ · To what, where: conventional retort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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	4 retort	det
3	conventional	conventional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 retort	amod
4	retort	retort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 name	mark
6	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 retort	acl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 calling	punct
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 name	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 employed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 employed	mark
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 calling	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conventional retort		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent retort=Theme
2	name	to-infinitive	you not said here	the conventional retort not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	employ	participle	you not said here		by a boy	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: 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

sama taka!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sama	sama	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taka	compound
2	taka	taka	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 taka	punct

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

Option 2

proBAch!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proBAch	probach	INTJ	_	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 proBAch	punct

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

Option 3

DYAkuyu!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 DYAkuyu	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sam takYi!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	takYi	takYi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sam	dep
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 sam	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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