Exam question 4 · Happy, angry, bored, scared

Ascertain the appropriate response to a companion who declares "wǒ hǎo pà".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, companion · What happens: ascertain, declare · To what, where: appropriate response, wǒ hǎo pà

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 companion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 companion	det
7	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 declares	nsubj
9	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 companion	acl:relcl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pà	punct
11	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	13 pà	compound
12	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	13 pà	compound
13	pà	pà	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declares	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pà	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response				to a companion	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic
2	declare speech: other	present	a companion	wǒ hǎo pà					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pà=Attribute

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

tǎoyàn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

bié pà

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bié	bié	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pà	compound
2	pà	pà	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

bié shēngqì

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bié	bié	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bié	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bié	imperative	you not said here	shēngqì					tree rules

Option 4

hǎo xiànmù

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	xiànmù	xiànmù	X	Foreign=Yes	1 hǎo	flat

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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