Exam question 3 · I don't understand — and what's your name?

Ascertain the literal signification of the enquiry yak teBE zvut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, signify · To what, where: literal signification, yak teBE zvut

This is exam question 3 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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	4 signification	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signification	amod
4	signification	signification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 zvut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 zvut	det
7	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yak	compound
8	yak	yak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zvut	compound
9	teBE	tebe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zvut	compound
10	zvut	zvut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signification	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the literal signification of the yak teBE zvut					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic
2	signify			the yak teBE zvut					nom signification «communication 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

What is your occupation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 occupation	nmod:poss
4	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	your occupation						tree rules
2	occupy		your						nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Whence do you come?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	you					whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

How do they call you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 call	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	they		you				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Option 4

What is your age?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 age	nmod:poss
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	your age						tree rules

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