Exam question 4 · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

Ascertain the action required of a child upon hearing an adult pronounce "ne mozhna!".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult · What happens: ascertain, require, hear, pronounce · To what, where: action · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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

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 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 action	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	obl
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 hearing	mark
9	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ne	advcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pronounce	nsubj
12	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hearing	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hearing	punct
14	ne	ne	X	Foreign=Yes	4 required	parataxis
15	mozhna	mozhna	X	_	14 ne	flat:foreign
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 ne	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ne	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the action		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Topic
2	require	participle		the action not said here	of a child	vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	hear	gerund				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pronounce	infinitive	a adult			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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

Repetition of the action to seek approval

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 action	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 action	det
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Repetition	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Repetition	acl
7	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seek	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	to-infinitive		approval					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Theme
2	repeat		the action						nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Continuation of the action with greater care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Continuation	continuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 action	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 action	det
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Continuation	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 care	case
6	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 care	amod
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 action	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue			the action with greater care					nom continuation «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Immediate cessation of the action concerned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cessation	amod
2	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 action	det
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cessation	nmod
6	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cessation	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease			the action					nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Enquiry as to the time of day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 time	case
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 as	fixed
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Enquiry	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nmod

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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