--- title: Ascertain the expression customarily employed when counting off the… — Calling Mum and Granny; counting one t… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the expression customarily employed when counting off the commencement of a race. Exam question 4 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; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/) / [Calling Mum and Granny; counting one t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight Ascertain the expression customarily employed when counting off the commencement of a race. **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, expression · **What happens:** ascertain, employ, count off · **To what, where:** expression, commencement This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the expression customarily employed when counting off the commencement of a race. 1 Ascertain ascertain 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 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 off off ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 commencement commencement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic | | 2 | **employ** | past | the expression *not said here* | | | | | customarily *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **count off** | gerund | the expression *not said here* | the commencement of a race | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commencement=Theme | 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} try, dva, odYn! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e4:o1:1 # text = try, dva, odYn! 1 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 dva dva NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 odYn odYn X FW Foreign=Yes 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} odYn, dva, try! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e4:o2:1 # text = odYn, dva, try! 1 odYn odYn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 dva dva NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | infinitive | odYn | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} sim, vIsim, DEvyat! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e4:o3:1 # text = sim, vIsim, DEvyat! 1 sim sim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 vIsim visim NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 DEvyat DEvyat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} raz, dva, try! ```conllu # sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight:e4:o4:1 # text = raz, dva, try! 1 raz raz NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 dva dva NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | raz and dva | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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