Exam question 1 · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve
It is given that a greeting "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" has been addressed to a guest. Identify the fixed response prescribed by custom.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, address, identify, fix, prescribe · To what, where: It, greeting, fixed response
This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve» 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 greeting "KhrystOs rodYvsya!" has been addressed to a guest.
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 | _ | 14 addressed | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 greeting | det |
| 6 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 KhrystOs | punct |
| 8 | KhrystOs | Khrysto | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 greeting | nmod |
| 9 | rodYvsya | rodYvsya | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 KhrystOs | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 greeting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 greeting | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 addressed | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 addressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 guest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 guest | det |
| 17 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | address | present · perfect · passive | a greeting KhrystOs | to a guest | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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: Identify the fixed response prescribed by custom.
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 response | det |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 response | amod |
| 4 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 response | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 custom | case |
| 7 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prescribed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | 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 fixed response | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | prescribe | participle | the fixed response not said here | by custom | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
HeroYam slAva!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HeroYam | HeroYam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | slAva | slAva | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 HeroYam | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 HeroYam | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
SlAvimo Yoho!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SlAvimo | SlAvimo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yoho | compound |
| 2 | Yoho | Yoho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yoho | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
VoIstynu voskrEs!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VoIstynu | VoIstynu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 voskrEs | compound |
| 2 | voskrEs | voskre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 voskrEs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
na zdorOv'ya!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | na | na | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | zdorOv'ya | zdorOv'ya | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 na | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 na | 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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