Exam question 1 · School words
Identify the term by which pupils customarily address an instructor in a Chinese school.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupils · What happens: identify, address · To what, where: term, instructor, Chinese school
This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «School words» 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 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 address | obl |
| 6 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 address | nsubj |
| 7 | customarily | customarily | ADV | _ | 8 address | advmod |
| 8 | address | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 instructor | det |
| 10 | instructor | instructor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 address | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 school | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 school | det |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 school | amod |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 address | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 term | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address | present | pupils | a instructor | a Chinese school | customarily property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instructor=Destination |
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
tóngxué
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tóngxué | tóngxué | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
shūshu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shūshu | shūshu | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
āyí
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | āyí | āyí | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
lǎoshī
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lǎoshī | lǎoshī | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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