Exam question 1 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

Identify the Ukrainian composition whose melody is known in the English-speaking world as "Carol of the Bells".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, know, speak · To what, where: Ukrainian composition, melody, speaking world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» 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 composition	det
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 composition	amod
4	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 melody	nmod:poss
6	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 known	aux:pass
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 composition	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speaking	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 English	punct
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Carol	case
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Carol	punct
17	Carol	Carol	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Bells	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Bells	det
20	Bells	Bell	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 Carol	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Carol	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the Ukrainian composition			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent composition=Theme
2	know	present · passive		melody	the speaking world	as Carol of the Bells	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as carol=Attribute
3	speak speech: other	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

kolyadky in general

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kolyadky	kolyadky	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 general	case
3	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 kolyadky	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ShchedrYk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ShchedrYk	ShchedrYk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the national anthem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 anthem	det
2	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anthem	amod
3	anthem	anthem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

mnohaya lita

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mnohaya	mnohaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lita	compound
2	lita	lita	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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