Exam question 2 · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

Identify the expression by which a boy introduces a female companion without any romantic implication.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: identify, introduce · To what, where: expression, female companion

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	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 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 introduces	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 introduces	nsubj
8	introduces	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 expression	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 companion	det
10	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 companion	amod
11	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 introduces	obj
12	without	without	ADP	_	15 implication	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 implication	det
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 implication	amod
15	implication	implication	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 introduces	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	introduce	present	a boy	a female companion				by the expression; without any romantic implication	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=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

tse moya MAma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tse	tse	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	moya	moya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 MAma	compound
3	MAma	MAma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 tse	conj

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

Option 2

tse miy druh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tse	tse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miy	compound
2	miy	miy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	druh	druh	INTJ	_	2 miy	discourse

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

Option 3

tse moya BAbusya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tse	tse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moya	compound
2	moya	moya	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moya	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

tse moya podRUha

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tse	tse	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	moya	moya	X	Foreign=Yes	1 tse	conj
3	podRUha	podRUha	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	2 moya	flat

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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