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title: Ascertain the action required of a guest when the grandmother of the… — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the action required of a guest when the grandmother of the household pronounces "odYahnysya!" at the threshold. Exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 1 · Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow

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Ascertain the action required of a guest when the grandmother of the household pronounces "odYahnysya!" at the threshold.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, grandmother · **What happens:** ascertain, require, pronounce · **To what, where:** action, odYahnysya, threshold

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» 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/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the action required of a guest when the grandmother of the household pronounces "odYahnysya!" at the threshold.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
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	obl	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	pronounces	pronounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	odYahnysya	odYahnysya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 action |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | the action *not said here* |  |  |  | of a guest | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pronounce** | present | the grandmother of the household | odYahnysya |  | the threshold |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odyahnysya=Theme |

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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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The removal of outer garments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e1:o1:1
# text = The removal of outer garments
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** |  |  | outer garments |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The removal of footwear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e1:o2:1
# text = The removal of footwear
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	removal	removal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	footwear	footwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** |  |  | footwear |  |  |  |  | nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The donning of outer garments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e1:o3:1
# text = The donning of outer garments
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	donning	donning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The washing of the hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e1:o4:1
# text = The washing of the hands
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** |  |  | the hands |  |  |  |  | nom washing «act 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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