Exam question 1 · Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate

Identify the greeting most appropriately addressed by a visiting child to the grandmother of his companion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, address, visit · To what, where: greeting

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1 «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the Chinese 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 greeting	det
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 appropriately	advmod
5	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	_	6 addressed	advmod
6	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 greeting	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
9	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 addressed	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 grandmother	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grandmother	det
13	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 companion	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 companion	nmod:poss
16	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grandmother	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the greeting		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
2	address	participle		the greeting not said here	by a visiting child to the grandmother of child's companion; appropriately property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	visit	gerund				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

huítóu jiàn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huítóu	huítóu	X	_	2 jiàn	compound
2	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

hāi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hāi	hāi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

wǎn'ān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǎn'ān	wǎn'ān	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nín hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nín	flat:foreign

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

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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