--- title: State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and th… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and the case employed when addressing one's mother. Exam question 4 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 c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The big language quiz State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and the case employed when addressing one's mother. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, case · **What happens:** state, possess, employ, address · **To what, where:** number, grammatical cases, mother This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e4:1 # text = State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and the case employed when addressing one's mother. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 grammatical grammatical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of grammatical cases | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **possess** | participle | | grammatical cases *not said here* | | | | by Ukrainian | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **employ** | past | the case | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **address** | gerund | the case *not said here* | | one's mother | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Destination | 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 {#o1} Three; the nominative ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e4:o1:1 # text = Three; the nominative 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 nominative nominative NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Seven; the vocative ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e4:o2:1 # text = Seven; the vocative 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 vocative vocative NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Twelve; the accusative ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e4:o3:1 # text = Twelve; the accusative 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 accusative accusative NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two; the genitive ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:40-the-big-language-quiz:e4:o4:1 # text = Two; the genitive 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 genitive genitive NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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