--- title: Identify the expression by which a child courteously requests permis… — Granny's "a little more", festival foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the expression by which a child courteously requests permission to have or to do something. Exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/e1/) [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/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/) / [Granny's "a little more", festival foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!" Identify the expression by which a child courteously requests permission to have or to do something. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** identify, request, have, do · **To what, where:** expression, permission, something This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Granny's "a little more", festival food — and "come on!"» 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/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on:e1:1 # text = Identify the expression by which a child courteously requests permission to have or to do something. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 courteously courteously ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 requests request VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | | 2 | **request** | present | a child | permission | | | | by the expression; courteously *property* | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | 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} kydAi! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on:e1:o1:1 # text = kydAi! 1 kydAi kydAi X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} mozhna ...?, preferably accompanied by BUD laska ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on:e1:o2:1 # text = mozhna ...?, preferably accompanied by BUD laska 1 mozhna mozhna NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 ... ... PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 preferably preferably ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 BUD BUD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 laska laska X FW Foreign=Yes 8 flat:foreign _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accompany** | participle | | mozhna *not said here* | | | | by BUD; preferably *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by bud=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} nu! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on:e1:o3:1 # text = nu! 1 nu nu NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} daVAI! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on:e1:o4:1 # text = daVAI! 1 daVAI daVAI X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` 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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