Exam question 3 · Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address el…

Select the response consistent with the established usage of the expression kuài jiào yéye.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, use · To what, where: response, expression

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 usage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 usage	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 usage	amod
8	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 expression	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 expression	det
11	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 usage	nmod
12	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	11 expression	dep
13	jiào	jiào	X	Foreign=Yes	12 kuài	flat
14	yéye	yéye	X	Foreign=Yes	12 kuài	flat:foreign
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	use			the expression	nom usage «act transitive»: of=patient

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

It announces the departure of the grandfather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 announces	nsubj
2	announces	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 departure	det
4	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 announces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 grandfather	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grandfather	det
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 departure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	present	It	the departure of the grandfather					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme departure=Reflexive
2	depart		the grandfather						nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

It is a reproach addressed to the grandfather by the parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reproach	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reproach	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reproach	det
4	reproach	reproach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reproach	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 grandfather	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grandfather	det
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 addressed	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 parents	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parents	det
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 addressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a reproach					tree rules
2	address	participle		a reproach not said here				to the grandfather; by the parents	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It instructs the child to greet the grandfather by his title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructs	nsubj
2	instructs	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instructs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 greet	mark
6	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 instructs	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grandfather	det
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greet	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 title	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 title	nmod:poss
11	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present	It	the child		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive		the grandfather	by child's title	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Theme
3	title		child			nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It is an instruction to telephone the grandfather at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 instruction	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 instruction	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 instruction	det
4	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 telephone	mark
6	telephone	telephone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 instruction	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grandfather	det
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telephone	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 telephone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a instruction					tree rules
2	telephone speech: other	to-infinitive			the grandfather				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient

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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