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title: Identify the formula pronounced before the commencement of a meal an… — Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the formula pronounced before the commencement of a meal and the customary reply thereto. Exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 1 · Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"

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Identify the formula pronounced before the commencement of a meal and the customary reply thereto.

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

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal"» 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/12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:e1:1
# text = Identify the formula pronounced before the commencement of a meal and the customary reply thereto.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the formula |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent formula=Theme |
| 2 | **pronounce** | participle |  | the formula *not said here* |  |  | before the commencement of a meal and the customary |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thereto *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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SMAchnoho!, to which one replies DYAkuyu, i vam!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:e1:o1:1
# text = SMAchnoho!, to which one replies DYAkuyu, i vam!
1	SMAchnoho	SMAchnoho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	DYAkuyu	DYAkuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vam	vam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | SMAchnoho | DYAkuyu |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dyakuyu=Topic to which=Recipient |
| 2 | **vam** | present | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ya nayIvsya, to which one replies NIchoho

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:e1:o2:1
# text = ya nayIvsya, to which one replies NIchoho
1	ya	ya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
2	nayIvsya	nayIvsya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	NIchoho	NIchoho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | ya | NIchoho |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nichoho=Topic to which=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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SMAchno!, to which one replies BUvai!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:e1:o3:1
# text = SMAchno!, to which one replies BUvai!
1	SMAchno	SMAchno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	BUvai	BUvai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | SMAchno | BUvai |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent buvai=Topic to which=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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DObroi NOchi, to which one replies tak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal:e1:o4:1
# text = DObroi NOchi, to which one replies tak
1	DObroi	DObroi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	NOchi	NOchi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tak	tak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | DObroi | tak |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tak=Topic to which=Recipient |

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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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