Exam question 1 · Animals and "what animal are you?"

Identify the literal sense of the Mandarin term "xióngmāo", denoting the giant panda.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, denote, sense · To what, where: literal sense, giant panda, Mandarin term

This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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	4 sense	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
7	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 term	compound
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 xióngmāo	punct
10	xióngmāo	xióngmāo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 xióngmāo	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 denoting	punct
13	denoting	denote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 panda	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 panda	amod
16	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 denoting	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the literal sense of the Mandarin term	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
2	denote	gerund	you not said here	the giant panda	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot panda=Topic
3	sense			the Mandarin term	nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Spotted bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bear	amod
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

Great cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cat	amod
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bear-cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Bear	punct
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Cat-bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Cat	punct
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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