Exam question 1 · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays

Identify the Mandarin designation for the day of the week which, uniquely, bears no ordinal numeral.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: Mandarin designation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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 designation	det
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designation	compound
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 uniquely	punct
13	uniquely	uniquely	ADV	_	1 Identify	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bears	punct
15	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 numeral	det
17	ordinal	ordinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 numeral	amod
18	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bears	nmod
19	.	.	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 designation			day	bears no ordinal numeral obl; uniquely property	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

zhōumò

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	zhōumò	zhōumò	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

xīngqīyī

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xīngqīyī	xīngqīyī	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

xīngqītiān

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xīngqītiān	xīngqītiān	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

xīngqīliù

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	xīngqīliù	xīngqīliù	PROPN	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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