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title: Ascertain the customary reply to the enquiry yak spRAvy? — Hi, hello and how are you · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the customary reply to the enquiry yak spRAvy? Exam question 4 of lesson 1 «Hi, hello and how are you» of the Ukrainian street 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 4 · Hi, hello and how are you

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Ascertain the customary reply to the enquiry yak spRAvy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** customary reply

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1 «Hi, hello and how are you» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the customary reply to the enquiry yak spRAvy?
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	yak	yak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spRAvy	spravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 customary reply |  |  |  | to the yak spRAvy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Topic |

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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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A brief answer such as NOrmalno, possibly followed by a reciprocal enquiry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you:e4:o1:1
# text = A brief answer such as NOrmalno, possibly followed by a reciprocal enquiry
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	NOrmalno	NOrmalno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	reciprocal	reciprocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | participle |  | a brief answer such NOrmalno *not said here* |  |  |  | by a reciprocal enquiry; possibly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by enquiry=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An exhaustive account of the day's events

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you:e4:o2:1
# text = An exhaustive account of the day's events
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	exhaustive	exhaustive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **account** |  |  | the day's events |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A formal valediction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you:e4:o3:1
# text = A formal valediction
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	valediction	valediction	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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A statement of one's age and address

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you:e4:o4:1
# text = A statement of one's age and address
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** |  |  | one's age and address |  |  |  |  | nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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