Exam question 3 · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners
It is given that a guest wishes to compliment an elderly lady. Select the formulation appropriate to her seniority.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guest, you, formulation · What happens: give, wish, compliment, select, appropriate · To what, where: It, elderly lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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 guest wishes to compliment an elderly lady.
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 | _ | 7 wishes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guest | det |
| 6 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 compliment | mark |
| 9 | compliment | compliment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wishes | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 compliment | obj |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | wish | present | a guest | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compliment not said to happen | to-infinitive | a elderly lady | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
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: Select the formulation appropriate to her seniority.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 formulation | det |
| 3 | formulation | formulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appropriate | nsubj |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Select | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 seniority | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 seniority | nmod:poss |
| 7 | seniority | seniority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appropriate | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | appropriate | past | the formulation | to formulation's seniority | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
ty hArno vyhlyadaiesh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ty | ty | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 hArno | flat:foreign |
| 2 | hArno | harno | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | vyhlyadaiesh | vyhlyadaiesh | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 hArno | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
vy hArno vyhlyadaiete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vy | vy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vyhlyadaiete | amod |
| 2 | hArno | harno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vyhlyadaiete | compound |
| 3 | vyhlyadaiete | vyhlyadaiete | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
sam takYi!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | takYi | takYi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 sam | dep |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 sam | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
pryVIT!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pryVIT | pryvit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 pryVIT | 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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