Exam question 3 · Weather and what Granny says to wear
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the garment designated "qiūkù"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment · What happens: follow, characteris, designate · To what, where: qiūkù
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garment | det |
| 10 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 designated | nsubj |
| 11 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 characterises | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 qiūkù | punct |
| 13 | qiūkù | qiūkù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 designated | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 qiūkù | punct |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | of the following statements; accurately property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | designate | past | the garment | qiūkù | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent qiūkù=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
Summer shorts worn for sport and games in hot weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shorts | compound |
| 2 | shorts | short | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shorts | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sport | case |
| 5 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worn | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 games | cc |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sport | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 weather | case |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weather | amod |
| 10 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | participle | Summer shorts not said here | hot weather | for sport and games | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Thermal undertrousers urged upon children by grandparents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thermal | thermal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 undertrousers | amod |
| 2 | undertrousers | undertrouser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 urged | nsubj |
| 3 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 urged | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 grandparents | case |
| 7 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 urged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | Thermal undertrousers | upon children; by grandparents | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Footwear for snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footwear | footwear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 snow | case |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Footwear | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A waterproof outer coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 2 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 3 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 4 | coat | coat | 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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