Exam question 2 · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★

State the sex of the writer of «ya ne zrobyla», together with the evidence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, sex · To what, where: sex, writer

This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sex	det
3	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 writer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 writer	det
6	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sex	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ya	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 ya	punct
9	ya	ya	X	_	6 writer	appos
10	ne	ne	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ya	flat:foreign
11	zrobyla	zrobyla	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ya	flat:foreign
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ya	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 together	punct
14	together	together	ADV	_	1 State	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 evidence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evidence	det
17	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the sex of the writer				with the evidence; together property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sex=Topic
2	sex			the writer					nom sex «act transitive»: of=patient

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

A boy, from the ending -la

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ending	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ending	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ending	det
6	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
8	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 ending	conj

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

Option 2

A boy, from the word ya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	appos
7	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A girl, from the ending -la

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ending	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ending	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ending	det
6	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ending	punct
8	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	2 girl	conj

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

Option 4

It cannot be determined from one sentence

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	5 determined	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 determined	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 determined	aux:pass
5	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sentence	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sentence	nummod
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 determined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not determine	can · passive		It		one sentence			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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