Exam question 1 · The body

Identify the expression whereby an adult customarily enquires as to the location of a child's pain.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult, child · What happens: identify, enquire, pain · To what, where: expression

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The body» 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	8 enquires	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enquires	nsubj
7	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	8 enquires	advmod
8	enquires	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 location	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 location	det
12	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enquires	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 pain	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pain	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 child	case
17	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 location	nmod
18	.	.	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	enquire speech: other	present	a adult		as the location of a child's pain; customarily, whereby property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pain		a child			nom pain «state 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

zhèr téng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zhèr	zhèr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 téng	compound
2	téng	téng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

dùzi jiào le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dùzi	dùzi	X	_	root	root
2	jiào	jiào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 dùzi	flat:foreign
3	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	1 dùzi	flat:foreign

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

Option 3

bù téng

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	téng	téng	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bù	flat:foreign

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nǎr téng?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǎr	nǎr	X	Foreign=Yes	2 téng	advmod
2	téng	téng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 téng	punct

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

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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