Exam question 1 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

Identify the expression whereby a Mandarin-speaking child customarily signifies enjoyment, its literal sense being "open heart".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaking child, literal sense, child · What happens: identify, speak, signify, be, sense · To what, where: expression, enjoyment, open heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	11 signifies	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
6	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speaking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Mandarin	punct
8	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signifies	nsubj
10	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	11 signifies	advmod
11	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
12	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signifies	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sense	nmod:poss
15	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sense	amod
16	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	nsubj
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 heart	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heart	amod
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signifies	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	signify	present	a speaking child	enjoyment	customarily, whereby property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enjoyment=Theme
4	is a in a quote	gerund	child's literal sense	open heart		tree rules
5	sense		child			nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

shēngqì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kāixīn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kāixīn	kāixīn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

wúliáo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wúliáo	wúliáo	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

nánguò

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nánguò	nánguò	X	Foreign=Yes	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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