Exam question 3 · Counting on: nine to eighty

Select the response consistent with the established function of the element -NAdtsyat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «Counting on: nine to eighty» 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 function	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 function	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 function	amod
8	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 NAdtsyat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 NAdtsyat	det
11	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 NAdtsyat	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 element	punct
13	NAdtsyat	NAdtsyat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 function	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	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

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

It denotes ordinal position

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ordinal	ordinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 position	amod
4	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	ordinal position					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot position=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It corresponds to the English termination «-teen»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 corresponds	nsubj
2	corresponds	correspond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 termination	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 termination	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 termination	amod
6	termination	termination	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corresponds	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 teen	punct
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 teen	punct
9	teen	teen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 termination	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 teen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correspond	present	It					to the English termination	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It corresponds to the English termination «-ty»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 corresponds	nsubj
2	corresponds	correspond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 termination	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 termination	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 termination	amod
6	termination	termination	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corresponds	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 ty	punct
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ty	punct
9	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 termination	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correspond	present	It					to the English termination	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It denotes the hundreds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hundreds	det
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	the hundreds					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hundred=Topic

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