Exam question 2 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

Ascertain the literal signification of the exhortation jiāyóu.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: literal signification

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 signification	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signification	amod
4	signification	signification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 exhortation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 exhortation	det
7	exhortation	exhortation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signification	conj
8	jiāyóu	jiāyóu	NOUN	_	7 exhortation	dep
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the literal signification and the exhortation					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic

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

To add oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 add	mark
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	to-infinitive		oil					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient

Option 2

To wait patiently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive						patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To form a queue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 form	mark
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 queue	det
4	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	to-infinitive		a queue					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queue=Theme

Option 4

To run swiftly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 run	mark
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	2 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	to-infinitive						swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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