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description: Identify the form of the noun MAma that is employed in calling the person so designated. Exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 1 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight

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Identify the form of the noun MAma that is employed in calling the person so designated.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ, call, designate, form · **To what, where:** form, noun MAma, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight» 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/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e1:1
# text = Identify the form of the noun MAma that is employed in calling the person so designated.
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	MAma	mama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 noun MAma |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | present · passive |  | the noun MAma |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | gerund |  |  | the person |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 4 | **designate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | the noun MAma |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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MAmo!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e1:o1:1
# text = MAmo!
1	MAmo	mamo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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MAma!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e1:o2:1
# text = MAma!
1	MAma	mama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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MAmoyu!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e1:o3:1
# text = MAmoyu!
1	MAmoyu	MAmoyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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MAmy!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e1:o4:1
# text = MAmy!
1	MAmy	MAmy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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