Exam question 2 · Hungry, tired, shy, excited
It is given that a pupil has slept adequately yet is physically exhausted following athletic exertion. Select the expression most consistent with the established distinction.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, sleep, exhaust, follow, select, establish · To what, where: It, pupil, athletic exertion, expression
This is exam question 2 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil has slept adequately yet is physically exhausted following athletic exertion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 slept | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pupil | det |
| 6 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slept | aux |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | adequately | adequately | ADV | _ | 8 slept | advmod |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 slept | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 12 | physically | physically | ADV | _ | 13 exhausted | advmod |
| 13 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 exhausted | advcl |
| 15 | athletic | athletic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 exertion | amod |
| 16 | exertion | exertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 following | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | present · perfect · passive | a pupil | yet | adequately property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | exhaust | present · passive | physically property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | athletic exertion | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exertion=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.
Sentence 2: Select the expression most consistent with the established distinction.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | select | 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 Select | obj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 consistent | advmod |
| 5 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 expression | amod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 distinction | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 distinction | det |
| 8 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 distinction | amod |
| 9 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consistent | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the expression | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
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 hàixiū
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 hàixiū | compound |
| 2 | hàixiū | hàixiū | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
wǒ xiǎng jiā
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 xiǎng | advmod |
| 2 | xiǎng | xiǎng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | jiā | jiā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 xiǎng | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xiǎng | gerund | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
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.
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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