Exam question 4 · I don't understand — and what's your name?

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the manner in which children customarily address adults?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: manner

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 manner	det
10	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
14	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	16 adults	advmod
15	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 adults	compound
16	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 children	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the manner				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

By the enquiry yak vas zvut? on every occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 zvut	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zvut	det
3	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yak	compound
4	yak	yak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zvut	compound
5	vas	vas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zvut	compound
6	zvut	zvut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 zvut	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 occasion	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 occasion	det
10	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zvut	nmod

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

Option 2

By the surname without any title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 surname	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 surname	det
3	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 title	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 title	det
6	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surname	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the first name together with the father's name, or by a word such as TItko

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 name	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 name	amod
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	obl
5	together	together	ADV	_	10 name	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 name	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 word	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 word	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 word	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	appos
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 TItko	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	TItko	TItko	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		the father						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

By the adult's first name alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 name	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 adult	case
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 name	amod
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 name	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		the adult						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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