Exam question 1 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

Identify the form of the noun MAma that is employed in calling the person so designated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, call, designate, form · To what, where: form, noun MAma, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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	_	7 MAma	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 MAma	det
6	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 MAma	compound
7	MAma	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 employed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 employed	aux:pass
10	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 MAma	acl:relcl
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 calling	mark
12	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 employed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 calling	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 designated	advmod
16	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 calling	advcl
17	.	.	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 noun MAma		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	employ	present · passive		the noun MAma		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	call	gerund			the person	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
4	designate	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	form			the noun MAma		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 · ✓ the right answer

MAmo!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MAmo	mamo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 MAmo	punct

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

Option 2

MAma!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MAma	mama	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 MAma	punct

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

Option 3

MAmoyu!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MAmoyu	MAmoyu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 MAmoyu	punct

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

Option 4

MAmy!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	MAmy	MAmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 MAmy	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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