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title: Ascertain the grammatical category of "quickly" in the sentence "She… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the grammatical category of "quickly" in the sentence "She ran quickly". Exam question 1 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 1 · The big language quiz

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Ascertain the grammatical category of "quickly" in the sentence "She ran quickly".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, She · **What happens:** ascertain, run · **To what, where:** grammatical category, sentence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language 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/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the grammatical category of "quickly" in the sentence "She ran quickly".
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	category	category	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 grammatical category |  | the sentence |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | past | She |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Adverb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e1:o1:1
# text = Adverb
1	Adverb	adverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Preposition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e1:o2:1
# text = Preposition
1	Preposition	preposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Noun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e1:o3:1
# text = Noun
1	Noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Adjective

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e1:o4:1
# text = Adjective
1	Adjective	adjective	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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