Exam question 2 · Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve

Determine the event which, by tradition, marks the commencement of the Christmas Eve supper.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, mark · To what, where: event, commencement

This is exam question 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 event	det
3	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Determine	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tradition	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 tradition	case
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 marks	punct
9	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 commencement	det
11	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marks	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 supper	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 supper	det
14	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Eve	compound
15	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 supper	compound
16	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 commencement	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the event				by tradition	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme which=Eventuality
2	mark	present		the commencement of the Eve supper					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent commencement=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The arrival of the eldest guest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arrival	det
2	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 guest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guest	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 guest	amod
6	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		the eldest guest						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The striking of midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike			midnight					nom striking «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The appearance of the first star in the evening sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 appearance	det
2	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 star	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 star	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 star	amod
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appearance	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sky	compound
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 star	nmod

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

Option 4

The ringing of the church bell at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ringing	det
2	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 bell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bell	compound
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ringing	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ringing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring			the church bell			at noon		nom ringing «event transitive»: of=patient at=obl

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