Exam question 3 · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

Select the response consistent with the established usage of BAbusya and BAba.

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

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 usage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 usage	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 usage	amod
8	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 BAbusya	case
10	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 usage	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 BAba	cc
12	BAba	BAba	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 BAbusya	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	use			BAbusya and BAba	nom usage «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

BAbusya is affectionate, whereas BAba alone, said of an unfamiliar woman, may appear discourteous

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 affectionate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affectionate	cop
3	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
5	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
6	BAba	BAba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 BAba	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 BAba	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 affectionate	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 appear	punct
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 appear	aux
16	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 affectionate	parataxis
17	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	BAbusya	affectionate property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	BAba	of a unfamiliar woman	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	appear	may		discourteous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Both are equally formal titles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 titles	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 titles	cop
3	equally	equally	ADV	_	4 formal	advmod
4	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 titles	amod
5	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

BAba is the more affectionate form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	BAba	BAba	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 form	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 form	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 form	det
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 affectionate	advmod
5	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	BAba	the affectionate form					tree rules

Option 4

BAbusya signifies grandfather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	nsubj
2	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signifies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	BAbusya	grandfather					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot grandfather=Theme

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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