Exam question 1 · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

Ascertain the literal construction of the enquiry SKILky tobI rokIv?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, construct · To what, where: literal construction, enquiry

This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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 construction	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 construction	amod
4	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 enquiry	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 enquiry	det
7	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 construction	nmod
8	SKILky	SKILky	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 enquiry	appos
9	tobI	tobI	X	Foreign=Yes	8 SKILky	flat:foreign
10	rokIv	rokIv	X	Foreign=Yes	8 SKILky	flat:foreign
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 construction of the enquiry					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Topic
2	construct			the enquiry					nom construction «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

How many years have you attended school?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 attended	nsubj
6	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	xcomp
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attended	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	many years						tree rules
2	attend	participle	you	school					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

How many years are there to you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 there	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many years		you			there property	tree rules

Option 3

How many years have you lived here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	many years			here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

How many years until your birthday?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	until	until	ADP	_	6 birthday	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 birthday	nmod:poss
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct

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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