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title: Ascertain the literal construction of the enquiry SKILky tobI rokIv? — How old are you, where from, and meet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the literal construction of the enquiry SKILky tobI rokIv? Exam question 1 of lesson 5 «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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 w
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# Exam question 1 · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

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Ascertain the literal construction of the enquiry SKILky tobI rokIv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, construct · **To what, where:** literal construction, enquiry

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «How old are you, where from, and meet the family» 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/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the literal construction of the enquiry SKILky tobI rokIv?
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	SKILky	SKILky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	tobI	tobI	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	rokIv	rokIv	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 literal construction of the enquiry |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Topic |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | the enquiry |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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How many years have you attended school?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e1:o1:1
# text = How many years have you attended school?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | many years |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | participle | you | school |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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How many years are there to you?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e1:o2:1
# text = How many years are there to you?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many years |  | you |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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How many years have you lived here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e1:o3:1
# text = How many years have you lived here?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · perfect | many years |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
How many years until your birthday?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e1:o4:1
# text = How many years until your birthday?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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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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