Exam question 1 · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child is expected to employ in addressing the grandmother of his companion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, visiting child · What happens: identify, visit, expect, employ, address, form · To what, where: form, visiting child, grandmother, person pronoun

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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 form	det
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 pronoun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pronoun	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 person	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 second	punct
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pronoun	compound
9	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 expected	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expected	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 expected	aux:pass
15	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pronoun	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 employ	mark
17	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expected	xcomp
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 addressing	mark
19	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 employ	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grandmother	det
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 addressing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 companion	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 companion	nmod:poss
24	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grandmother	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the form of the person pronoun		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	visit	gerund				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	expect	present · passive		a visiting child		tree rules
4	employ not said to happen	to-infinitive	a visiting child not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	address	gerund	a visiting child not said here		the grandmother of child's companion	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Destination
6	form			the person pronoun		nom form «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

tvIy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tvIy	tvIy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ty	ty	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	vy	vy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

tvoya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tvoya	tvoya	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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