Exam question 3 · Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!

Select the response consistent with the established distinction between zuòbì and shuǎlài.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	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	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 distinction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 distinction	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 distinction	amod
8	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	between	between	ADP	_	10 zuòbì	case
10	zuòbì	zuòbì	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distinction	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shuǎlài	cc
12	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	8 distinction	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					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

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

Both denote victory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 denote	nsubj
2	denote	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	Both	victory					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot victory=Topic

Option 2

The former denotes a draw, whereas the latter denotes a rematch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 former	det
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 draw	det
5	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 denotes	punct
7	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	10 denotes	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 latter	det
9	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 denotes	nsubj
10	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 denotes	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rematch	det
12	rematch	rematch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	the former	a draw					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot draw=Topic
2	denote	present	the latter	a rematch					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rematch=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The former denotes cheating, the latter refusing to accept defeat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 former	det
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 latter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 latter	det
7	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cheating	appos
8	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 latter	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 accept	mark
10	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refusing	xcomp
11	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	denote	present	the former	cheating	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cheating=Topic
2	refuse	gerund	the former not said here		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not accept	to-infinitive	the former not said here	defeat	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme

Option 4

Both denote concealment in hide and seek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 denote	nsubj
2	denote	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denote	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 hide	case
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denote	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seek	cc
7	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 denote	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	Both	concealment				in hide	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot concealment=Theme in hide=Attribute
2	seek	infinitive	Both not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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