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description: Select the response that most accurately accounts for the Hawaiian rendering "Mele Kalikimaka". Exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: real languages and codes

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Select the response that most accurately accounts for the Hawaiian rendering "Mele Kalikimaka".

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:e4:1
# text = Select the response that most accurately accounts for the Hawaiian rendering "Mele Kalikimaka".
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mele	Mele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Kalikimaka	Kalikimaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response  most accounts for the Hawaiian rendering |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Translation of a different festival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:e4:o1:1
# text = Translation of a different festival
1	Translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** |  | a different festival |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Borrowing from the Japanese language

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:e4:o2:1
# text = Borrowing from the Japanese language
1	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | gerund |  |  |  | the Japanese language |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from language=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Deliberate mistranslation for comic effect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:e4:o3:1
# text = Deliberate mistranslation for comic effect
1	Deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mistranslation	mistranslation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Adaptation of the phrase to Hawaiian sounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:e4:o4:1
# text = Adaptation of the phrase to Hawaiian sounds
1	Adaptation	adaptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** |  | the phrase |  |  |  |  | to Hawaiian sounds | nom adaptation «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

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**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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