Exam question 1 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

Identify the expression customarily employed to indicate that it is the hearer's turn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, expression · What happens: identify, employ, indicate, be · To what, where: expression, turn

This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 indicate	mark
7	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employed	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 turn	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turn	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 turn	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hearer	det
12	hearer	hearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 hearer	case
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indicate	ccomp
15	.	.	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	past	you not said here		customarily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	indicate	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	present	expression	the hearer's turn		tree rules

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

zǒu ba

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zǒu	zǒu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ba	compound
2	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

gāi nǐ le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	dep
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	3 le	compound
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

děng yíxià

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	děng	děng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	yíxià	yíxià	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 děng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	děng	gerund		yíxià					tree rules

Option 4

gāi wǒ le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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