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title: Ascertain the meaning conveyed by an Australian speaker who responds… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the meaning conveyed by an Australian speaker who responds «nah yeah» to a question. Exam question 3 of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 3 · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…

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Ascertain the meaning conveyed by an Australian speaker who responds «nah yeah» to a question.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Australian speaker · **What happens:** ascertain, convey, respond · **To what, where:** meaning

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday 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/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the meaning conveyed by an Australian speaker who responds «nah yeah» to a question.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	responds	respond	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meaning |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic |
| 2 | **convey** | participle |  | the meaning *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Australian speaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | a Australian speaker |  |  |  |  | to a question | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=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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Uncertainty as to the correct answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains:e3:o1:1
# text = Uncertainty as to the correct answer
1	Uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Disagreement expressed with great emphasis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains:e3:o2:1
# text = Disagreement expressed with great emphasis
1	Disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | participle |  | Disagreement *not said here* |  |  |  | with great emphasis | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A refusal to answer the question put

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains:e3:o3:1
# text = A refusal to answer the question put
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the question |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Agreement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains:e3:o4:1
# text = Agreement
1	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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