Exam question 4 · The body
Determine the classification appropriate to the act of pulling one's eyes so as to imitate persons of Chinese descent.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, act · What happens: determine, pull, imitate · To what, where: classification, one, persons
This is exam question 4 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 classification | det |
| 3 | classification | classification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 act | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 act | det |
| 7 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appropriate | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 pulling | mark |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 act | acl |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulling | obj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 one | case |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Determine | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 as | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 1 Determine | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 imitate | mark |
| 16 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Determine | advcl |
| 17 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 imitate | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 descent | case |
| 19 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 descent | amod |
| 20 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 persons | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the classification | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent classification=Theme eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | the act not said here | one | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imitate | to-infinitive | you not said here | persons of Chinese descent | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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 · ✓ the right answer
Racist mockery, not a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Racist | racist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mockery | amod |
| 2 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 joke | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mockery | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A traditional greeting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 greeting | det |
| 2 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 greeting | amod |
| 3 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A medical examination
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 examination | det |
| 2 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 examination | amod |
| 3 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A playground game without consequence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 consequence | case |
| 5 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | nmod |
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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