Exam question 1 · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

Identify the outcome when cloth (bù) is opposed to stone (shítou) in the game shítou jiǎndāo bù.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, oppose · To what, where: outcome, game, cloth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 14 «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 opposed	mark
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opposed	nsubj:pass
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 bù	punct
7	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 bù	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 opposed	aux:pass
10	opposed	oppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 stone	case
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opposed	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 shítou	punct
14	shítou	shítou	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stone	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 shítou	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 game	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 game	det
18	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
19	shítou	shítou	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Identify	obj
20	jiǎndāo	jiǎndāo	X	Foreign=Yes	19 shítou	flat:foreign
21	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	19 shítou	flat:foreign
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the outcome		the game			tree rules
2	oppose	present · passive		cloth				to stone	vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Stone prevails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevails	nsubj
2	prevails	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevail	present	Stone						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cloth prevails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevails	nsubj
2	prevails	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevail	present	Cloth						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The game is declared void

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux:pass
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	void	void	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present · passive		the game					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 4

The result is invariably a draw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	6 draw	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 draw	det
6	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the result	a draw				invariably property	tree rules

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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