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title: Select the expression of apology appropriate to an elderly stranger. — Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the expression of apology appropriate to an elderly stranger. Exam question 3 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» 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 right.
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★

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Select the expression of apology appropriate to an elderly stranger.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select · **To what, where:** expression

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★» 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/32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms:e3:1
# text = Select the expression of apology appropriate to an elderly stranger.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression of apology |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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vybaCHte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms:e3:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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AHA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms:e3:o2:1
# text = AHA
1	AHA	aha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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vybaCHAI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms:e3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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DYAka

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms:e3:o4:1
# 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.

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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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