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title: Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child… — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the pol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child is expected to employ in addressing the grandmother of his companion. Exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 1 · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

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Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child is expected to employ in addressing the grandmother of his companion.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, visiting child · **What happens:** identify, visit, expect, employ, address, form · **To what, where:** form, visiting child, grandmother, person pronoun

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e1:1
# text = Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child is expected to employ in addressing the grandmother of his companion.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 form of the person pronoun |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **expect** | present · passive |  | a visiting child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **employ** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a visiting child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **address** | gerund | a visiting child *not said here* |  | the grandmother of child's companion |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Destination |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | the person pronoun |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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tvIy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e1:o1:1
# text = tvIy
1	tvIy	tvIy	PROPN	NNP	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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ty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e1:o2:1
# text = ty
1	ty	ty	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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vy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e1:o3:1
# text = vy
1	vy	vy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tvoya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e1:o4:1
# text = tvoya
1	tvoya	tvoya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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