Exam question 3 · Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the offer of rè shuǐ.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, offer · To what, where: response, offer, rè shuǐ

This is exam question 3 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	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	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 offer	det
11	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 shuǐ	case
13	rè	rè	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shuǐ	compound
14	shuǐ	shuǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	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	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the offer of rè shuǐ		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus offer=Experiencer
4	offer			rè shuǐ		nom offer «communication 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 is a reproach for poor manners

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	for	for	ADP	_	7 manners	case
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 manners	amod
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 reproach	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a reproach				for poor manners	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It expresses care, cold drinks being thought harmful to digestion

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 expresses	nsubj
2	expresses	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expresses	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drinks	amod
6	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thought	nsubj:pass
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 thought	aux:pass
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 expresses	conj
9	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 digestion	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 harmful	fixed
11	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	present	It	care					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme care=Reflexive
2	think speech: other	gerund · passive		cold drinks				harmful digestion	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It indicates that cold water is unavailable in the household

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 indicates	nsubj
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 unavailable	mark
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unavailable	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unavailable	cop
7	unavailable	unavailable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 indicates	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 household	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 household	det
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unavailable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	It						vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	cold water			the household		unavailable property	tree rules

Option 4

It signals the conclusion of the visit

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 signals	nsubj
2	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conclusion	det
4	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signals	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 visit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 visit	det
7	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conclusion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude			the visit					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/e3/