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title: Ascertain the relationship denoted by dvoYUrIdnyi brat. — Brothers, aunties, cousins and the pol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the relationship denoted by dvoYUrIdnyi brat. Exam question 3 of lesson 6 «Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

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Ascertain the relationship denoted by dvoYUrIdnyi brat.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, denote · **To what, where:** relationship

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the relationship denoted by dvoYUrIdnyi brat.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	denoted	denote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dvoYUrIdnyi	dvoyuridnyi	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	brat	brat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 relationship |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Topic |
| 2 | **denote** | participle |  | the relationship *not said here* |  |  |  | by dvoYUrIdnyi brat | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |

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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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A younger brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e3:o1:1
# text = A younger brother
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	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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A godfather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e3:o2:1
# text = A godfather
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	godfather	godfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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A male cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e3:o3:1
# text = A male cousin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	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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A stepfather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy:e3:o4:1
# text = A stepfather
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepfather	stepfather	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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**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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