Exam question 1 · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

Identify the term by which a child customarily addresses the father of his father.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, address · To what, where: term, father

This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 addresses	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addresses	nsubj
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	9 addresses	advmod
9	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addresses	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	address	present	a child		the father of child's father			customarily property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

yéye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yéye	yéye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

lǎoye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǎoye	lǎoye	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3

shūshu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

jiùjiu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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