Exam question 4 · In the playground: come on, your turn!

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression wǒ yě yào wánr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: expression

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expression	det
10	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	wǒ	wǒ	ADP	_	12 yě	case
12	yě	yě	X	Foreign=Yes	10 expression	nmod
13	yào	yào	X	Foreign=Yes	10 expression	dep
14	wánr	wán	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 characterises	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the expression				of the following statements; wǒ yě; accurately, wán property	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

It is an instruction to hurry

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 hurry	mark
6	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 instruction	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a instruction					tree rules
2	hurry	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is an accusation of cheating

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 accusation	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accusation	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 accusation	det
4	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cheating	case
6	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accusation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a accusation				of cheating	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a request to be permitted to join a game

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 request	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 request	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 request	det
4	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 permitted	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 permitted	aux:pass
7	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 request	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 join	mark
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 permitted	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a request	tree rules
2	permit	to-infinitive · passive			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
3	join not said to happen	to-infinitive		a game	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient

Option 4

It is a refusal to continue playing the game any longer

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 refusal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 refusal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 refusal	det
4	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 continue	mark
6	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refusal	acl
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 continue	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a refusal		tree rules
2	continue	to-infinitive				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	gerund		the game	long property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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