Exam question 2 · Please, thank you, sorry, okay
Identify the apology appropriate to be addressed to an adult stranger, or to precede a question put to such a person.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, address, precede, put · To what, where: apology, question
This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» 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 | 3 apology | det |
| 3 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Identify | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 addressed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 addressed | aux:pass |
| 7 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appropriate | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stranger | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stranger | compound |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 addressed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 precede | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 precede | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 precede | mark |
| 15 | precede | precede | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 question | det |
| 17 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 precede | obj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 question | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 person | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 person | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | 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 apology | appropriate property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent apology=Theme | |||
| 2 | address | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | to a adult stranger | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | precede | to-infinitive | you not said here | a question | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme question=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | a question not said here | to such person | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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
DYAka
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DYAka | DYAka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
vybaCHAI
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vybaCHAI | vybaCHAI | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
vybaCHte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vybaCHte | vybaCHte | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
LAdno
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LAdno | LAdno | PROPN | 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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