--- title: Identify the enquiry by which one seeks to ascertain the hour. — Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the enquiry by which one seeks to ascertain the hour. Exam question 4 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/e4/) [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/) / [Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow Identify the enquiry by which one seeks to ascertain the hour. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** identify, seek, ascertain · **To what, where:** enquiry This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e4:1 # text = Identify the enquiry by which one seeks to ascertain the hour. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 enquiry enquiry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seeks seek VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 ascertain ascertain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the enquiry | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | present | which one | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ascertain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which one *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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} kotra hodyna? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e4:o1:1 # text = kotra hodyna? 1 kotra kotra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 hodyna hodyna X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} yak teBE zvut? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e4:o2:1 # text = yak teBE zvut? 1 yak yak X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 teBE teBE X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 3 zvut zvut X FW Foreign=Yes 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} shcho stAlosya? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e4:o3:1 # text = shcho stAlosya? 1 shcho shcho X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 stAlosya stAlosya X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} yaka pohOda? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow:e4:o4:1 # text = yaka pohOda? 1 yaka yaka X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 pohOda pohoda NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 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: [Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/e3/) - next →: [What time is it? 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