Exam question 1 · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

Identify the expression appropriately employed to commend the flavour of a beverage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, commend, flavour · To what, where: expression, flavour, beverage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	_	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 expression	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 commend	mark
7	commend	commend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employed	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flavour	det
9	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commend	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beverage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beverage	det
12	beverage	beverage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flavour	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	employ	participle		the expression not said here	appropriately property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	commend	to-infinitive		the flavour of a beverage		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Theme
4	flavour			a beverage		nom flavour «state 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

hǎo hē

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

tài là le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	dep
2	là	là	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	amod
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

hǎo chī

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

wǒ chī bǎo le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	chī	chī	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
3	bǎo	bǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
4	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	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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