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title: Identify the expression by which a boy introduces a female companion… — How old are you, where from, and meet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the expression by which a boy introduces a female companion without any romantic implication. Exam question 2 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 o
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# Exam question 2 · How old are you, where from, and meet the family

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Identify the expression by which a boy introduces a female companion without any romantic implication.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, boy · **What happens:** identify, introduce · **To what, where:** expression, female companion

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e2:1
# text = Identify the expression by which a boy introduces a female companion without any romantic implication.
1	Identify	identify	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	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	introduces	introduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	implication	implication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 expression |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme |
| 2 | **introduce** | present | a boy | a female companion |  |  |  | by the expression; without any romantic implication | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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tse moya MAma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e2:o1:1
# text = tse moya MAma
1	tse	tse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	moya	moya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	MAma	MAma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tse miy druh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e2:o2:1
# text = tse miy druh
1	tse	tse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	miy	miy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	druh	druh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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tse moya BAbusya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e2:o3:1
# text = tse moya BAbusya
1	tse	tse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	moya	moya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	BAbusya	BAbusya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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tse moya podRUha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family:e2:o4:1
# text = tse moya podRUha
1	tse	tse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	moya	moya	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
3	podRUha	podRUha	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	2	flat	_	_
```

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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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