--- title: Determine the most appropriate enquiry to be addressed to a parent a… — Can he come out? Home time — and the s… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the most appropriate enquiry to be addressed to a parent at the threshold when one desires that the said parent's child should be permitted to join outdoor play. Exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Can he come out? Home time — and the school day» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/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/) / [Can he come out? Home time — and the s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Can he come out? Home time — and the school day Determine the most appropriate enquiry to be addressed to a parent at the threshold when one desires that the said parent's child should be permitted to join outdoor play. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** determine, address, desire, say, permit, join · **To what, where:** appropriate enquiry, child, outdoor play · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Can he come out? Home time — and the school day» 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/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day:e1:1 # text = Determine the most appropriate enquiry to be addressed to a parent at the threshold when one desires that the said parent's child should be permitted to join outdoor play. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 4 advmod _ _ 4 appropriate appropriate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 enquiry enquiry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 addressed address VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 16 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 desires desire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 outdoor outdoor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the appropriate enquiry | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enquiry=Topic | | 2 | **address** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | the appropriate enquiry *not said here* | | | | to a parent at the threshold | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **desire** | present | one | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **permit** | should · passive | | the said parent's child | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **join** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | outdoor play | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Patient | 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} molodEts! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day:e1:o1:1 # text = molodEts! 1 molodEts molodet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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 VYity? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day:e1:o2:1 # text = mozhna VYity? 1 mozhna mozhna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 VYity VYity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} shche p'yat khvylYn! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day:e1:o3:1 # text = shche p'yat khvylYn! 1 shche shche NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 p'yat p'yat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 khvylYn khvylYn X FW Foreign=Yes 2 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} DOdomu! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day:e1:o4:1 # text = DOdomu! 1 DOdomu DOdomu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Can he come out? Home time — and the s…, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/t11/) - next →: [Can he come out? 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