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title: Identify the apology appropriate to be addressed to an adult strange… — Please, thank you, sorry, okay · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the apology appropriate to be addressed to an adult stranger, or to precede a question put to such a person. Exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 2 · Please, thank you, sorry, okay

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Identify the apology appropriate to be addressed to an adult stranger, or to precede a question put to such a person.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, address, precede, put · **To what, where:** apology, question

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Please, thank you, sorry, okay» 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/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay:e2:1
# text = Identify the apology appropriate to be addressed to an adult stranger, or to precede a question put to such a person.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	precede	precede	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the apology |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent apology=Theme |
| 2 | **address** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a adult stranger | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **precede** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a question |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme question=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **put** | participle |  | a question *not said here* |  |  |  | to such person | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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DYAka

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay:e2:o1:1
# text = DYAka
1	DYAka	DYAka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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vybaCHAI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay:e2:o2:1
# text = vybaCHAI
1	vybaCHAI	vybaCHAI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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vybaCHte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay:e2:o3:1
# text = vybaCHte
1	vybaCHte	vybaCHte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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LAdno

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay:e2:o4:1
# text = LAdno
1	LAdno	LAdno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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