Exam question 4 · Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays

Ascertain the date upon which Ukraine observes its Independence Day.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Ukraine · What happens: ascertain, observe · To what, where: date, Independence Day

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 observes	obl
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 observes	nsubj
7	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 date	acl:relcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Day	nmod:poss
9	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Day	compound
10	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 observes	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	observe	present	Ukraine	date's Independence Day				upon the date	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent day=Topic

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 right answer

The twenty-fourth of August

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fourth	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fourth	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 August	case
6	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fourth	nmod

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

Option 2

The first of January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod

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

Option 3

The sixth of December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The twenty-fifth of December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fifth	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fifth	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 December	case
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fifth	nmod

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

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