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title: Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a guest who declines the offer… — The flag, and what's cooking at the fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a guest who declines the offer of sAlo. Exam question 4 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» 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 c
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# Exam question 4 · The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house

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Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a guest who declines the offer of sAlo.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, guest · **What happens:** ascertain, decline, conduct, offer · **To what, where:** appropriate conduct, offer, guest, sAlo

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house» 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/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a guest who declines the offer of sAlo.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declines	decline	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sAlo	sAlo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 appropriate conduct of a guest |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic |
| 2 | **decline** | present | a guest | the offer of sAlo |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 3 | **conduct** |  |  | a guest |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **offer** |  |  | sAlo |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Consumption of the dish under protest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:e4:o1:1
# text = Consumption of the dish under protest
1	Consumption	consumption	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	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** |  |  | the dish under protest |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An expression of disgust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:e4:o2:1
# text = An expression of disgust
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Immediate departure from the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:e4:o3:1
# text = Immediate departure from the table
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A courteous refusal such as ni, DYAkuyu, which is entirely acceptable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking:e4:o4:1
# text = A courteous refusal such as ni, DYAkuyu, which is entirely acceptable
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | DYAkuyu |  |  |  |  | acceptable, entirely *property* | tree rules |

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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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