Exam question 4 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

Ascertain the expression customarily employed when counting off the commencement of a race.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, expression · What happens: ascertain, employ, count off · To what, where: expression, commencement

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expression	acl:relcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 counting	advmod
7	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 employed	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 commencement	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 commencement	det
10	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 counting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 race	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 race	det
13	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 commencement	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic
2	employ	past	the expression not said here		customarily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	count off	gerund	the expression not said here	the commencement of a race		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commencement=Theme

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

try, dva, odYn!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dva	punct
3	dva	dva	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 try	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 odYn	punct
5	odYn	odYn	X	Foreign=Yes	3 dva	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 try	punct

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

Option 2

odYn, dva, try!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	odYn	odYn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 try	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dva	punct
3	dva	dva	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 odYn	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 odYn	punct
5	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive	odYn						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

sim, vIsim, DEvyat!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sim	sim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vIsim	punct
3	vIsim	visim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sim	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 DEvyat	punct
5	DEvyat	DEvyat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 sim	vocative
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 sim	punct

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

raz, dva, try!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	raz	raz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dva	punct
3	dva	dva	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 raz	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 raz	punct
5	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	raz and dva					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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