Exam question 3 · School words

Ascertain the expression whereby a pupil indicates that spoken words have been heard but not comprehended.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: ascertain, indicate, speak, hear, not comprehend · To what, where: expression, spoken words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	7 indicates	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indicates	nsubj
7	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 heard	mark
9	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 indicates	ccomp
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 comprehended	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 comprehended	advmod
16	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 heard	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic
2	indicate	present	a pupil		whereby property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	participle				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	present · perfect · passive		spoken words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	not comprehend	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

tīng bù dǒng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tīng	tīng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dǒng	compound
3	dǒng	dǒng	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tīng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tīng	gerund		bù dǒng					tree rules

Option 2

wǒ wàng le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	wàng	wàng	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
3	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

kàn bù dǒng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kàn	kàn	X	Foreign=Yes	3 dǒng	compound
2	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	1 kàn	flat:foreign
3	dǒng	dǒng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

yìbǎi fēn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	X	_	root	root
2	fēn	fēn	X	Foreign=Yes	1 yìbǎi	flat:foreign

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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