Exam question 1 · Hungry, tired, shy, excited

Identify the utterance whereby a speaker of Mandarin customarily signifies hunger.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: identify, signify · To what, where: utterance, hunger

This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 utterance	det
3	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	10 signifies	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speaker	det
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signifies	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mandarin	case
8	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speaker	nmod
9	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	10 signifies	advmod
10	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signifies	obj
12	.	.	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 utterance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme
2	signify	present	a speaker of Mandarin	hunger				customarily, whereby property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hunger=Theme

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

wǒ kùn le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	kùn	kùn	X	_	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 2

wǒ lèi le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	lèi	lèi	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 · ✓ the right answer

wǒ è le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	è	è	X	_	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 4

wǒ kě le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	kě	kě	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.

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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