Exam question 3 · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★

Select the expression of apology appropriate to an elderly stranger.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select · To what, where: expression

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 apology	case
5	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expression	nmod
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 stranger	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
9	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stranger	amod
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appropriate	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the expression of apology					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 2

AHA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	AHA	aha	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

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 4

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.

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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