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title: Ascertain the action required of a child upon hearing an adult prono… — Granny's rules, superstitions and good… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the action required of a child upon hearing an adult pronounce "ne mozhna!". Exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 4 · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

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Ascertain the action required of a child upon hearing an adult pronounce "ne mozhna!".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, adult · **What happens:** ascertain, require, hear, pronounce · **To what, where:** action · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» 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/30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the action required of a child upon hearing an adult pronounce "ne mozhna!".
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	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	parataxis	_	_
15	mozhna	mozhna	X	FW	_	14	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 child | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pronounce** | infinitive | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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Repetition of the action to seek approval

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:e4:o1:1
# text = Repetition of the action to seek approval
1	Repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
7	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | approval |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** |  | the action |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Continuation of the action with greater care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:e4:o2:1
# text = Continuation of the action with greater care
1	Continuation	continuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** |  |  | the action with greater care |  |  |  |  | nom continuation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Immediate cessation of the action concerned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:e4:o3:1
# text = Immediate cessation of the action concerned
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cessation	cessation	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	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** |  |  | the action |  |  |  |  | nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Enquiry as to the time of day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners:e4:o4:1
# text = Enquiry as to the time of day
1	Enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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