Exam question 1 · Weather and what Granny says to wear

Identify the enquiry whereby a Mandarin speaker customarily solicits a report on prevailing meteorological conditions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mandarin speaker, report · What happens: identify, solicit, prevail · To what, where: enquiry, report, meteorological conditions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 enquiry	det
3	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	9 solicits	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 speaker	det
6	Mandarin	mandarin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speaker	amod
7	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 solicits	nsubj
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	9 solicits	advmod
9	solicits	solicit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 report	det
11	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 solicits	obj
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 prevailing	mark
13	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 report	acl
14	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conditions	amod
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 prevailing	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the enquiry		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent enquiry=Theme
2	solicit	present	a Mandarin speaker	a report	customarily, whereby property	tree rules
3	prevail	gerund	a report not said here	meteorological conditions		tree rules

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

nǐ qù nǎr?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	qù	qù	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
3	nǎr	nǎr	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 nǐ	punct

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

Option 2

chī le ma?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chī	chī	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ma	compound
2	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ma	compound
3	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ma	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

tiānqì zěnmeyàng?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiānqì	tiānqì	X	_	2 zěnmeyàng	nsubj
2	zěnmeyàng	zěnmeyàng	X	_	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 zěnmeyàng	punct

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

Option 4

jǐ diǎn le?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jǐ	jǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	amod
2	diǎn	diǎn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	amod
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 le	punct

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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