Exam question 1 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

Identify the Mandarin term denoting the day subsequent to the morrow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mandarin term · What happens: identify, denote · To what, where: Mandarin term, day subsequent

This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 term	det
3	Mandarin	mandarin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 term	amod
4	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 term	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 subsequent	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 subsequent	compound
8	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denoting	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 morrow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morrow	det
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denoting	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the Mandarin term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	gerund	the Mandarin term not said here	the day subsequent				to the morrow	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subsequent=Theme to morrow=Attribute

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

míngtiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	míngtiān	míngtiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

qiántiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	qiántiān	qiántiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

zuótiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zuótiān	zuótiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hòutiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hòutiān	hòutiān	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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