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title: Identify the utterance by which a visitor may indicate that he has n… — I don't understand — and what's your n… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the utterance by which a visitor may indicate that he has not comprehended what was said. Exam question 1 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 1 · I don't understand — and what's your name?

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Identify the utterance by which a visitor may indicate that he has not comprehended what was said.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, visitor · **What happens:** identify, indicate, not comprehend, say · **To what, where:** utterance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «I don't understand — and what's your name?» 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/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:e1:1
# text = Identify the utterance by which a visitor may indicate that he has not comprehended what was said.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 utterance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme |
| 2 | **indicate** | may | a visitor |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **comprehend** | present · perfect | visitor |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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DUzhe pryYEmno

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:e1:o1:1
# text = DUzhe pryYEmno
1	DUzhe	DUzhe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pryYEmno	pryyemno	NOUN	NN	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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ne znAyu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:e1:o2:1
# text = ne znAyu
1	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	znAyu	znAyu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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zvychAino

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:e1:o3:1
# text = zvychAino
1	zvychAino	zvychAino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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ya ne rozuMIyu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name:e1:o4:1
# text = ya ne rozuMIyu
1	ya	ya	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rozuMIyu	rozuMIyu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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