Exam question 4 · Today, tomorrow, now, later

Ascertain the literal composition of the term "xiàwǔ", signifying afternoon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, signify · To what, where: literal composition

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 composition	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 composition	amod
4	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 composition	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 xiàwǔ	punct
9	xiàwǔ	xiàwǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 term	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 xiàwǔ	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 signifying	punct
12	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ascertain	advcl
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 signifying	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the literal composition of the term					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composition=Topic
2	signify	gerund	you not said here				afternoon		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Before noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

After noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Early morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Late night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	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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