--- title: Identify the conventional retort to name-calling, as employed by a b… — Friendly name-calling and real insults… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the conventional retort to name-calling, as employed by a boy. Exam question 2 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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 ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/e2/) [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/) / [Friendly name-calling and real insults…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only) Identify the conventional retort to name-calling, as employed by a boy. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, name, call, employ · **To what, where:** conventional retort · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 of lesson 26 «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» 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/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:e2:1 # text = Identify the conventional retort to name-calling, as employed by a boy. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 conventional conventional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 retort retort NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the conventional retort | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent retort=Theme | | 2 | **name** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the conventional retort *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **employ** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | by a boy | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1} sama taka! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:e2:o1:1 # text = sama taka! 1 sama sama NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 taka taka NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} proBAch! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:e2:o2:1 # text = proBAch! 1 proBAch probach INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} DYAkuyu! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:e2:o3:1 # text = DYAkuyu! 1 DYAkuyu DYAkuyu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} sam takYi! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults:e2:o4:1 # text = sam takYi! 1 sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 takYi takYi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! 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: [Friendly name-calling and real insults…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/e1/) - next →: [Friendly name-calling and real insults…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/e3/) - ↑ back to [Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/)