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Exam question 2 · Days of the week, the clock, birthdays

It is given that a pupil's birthday falls upon the eighth day of March. Select the rendering consistent with the established ordering of Chinese dates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birthday, you · What happens: give, fall, select, render, establish · To what, where: It

This is exam question 2 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil's birthday falls upon the eighth day of March.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 falls	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birthday	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pupil	case
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	nsubj
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 March	case
15	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fall	present	a pupil's birthday				day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Select the rendering consistent with the established ordering of Chinese dates.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rendering	det
3	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Select	advcl
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rendering	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 ordering	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ordering	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ordering	amod
8	ordering	ordering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dates	case
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dates	amod
11	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ordering	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	render	gerund	you not said here					consistent property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bā hào sān yuè

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bā	bā	X	Foreign=Yes	4 yuè	nsubj
2	hào	hào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bā	flat:foreign
3	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bā	flat:foreign
4	yuè	yuè	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

sān hào bā yuè

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	4 yuè	nsubj
2	hào	hào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign
3	bā	bā	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign
4	yuè	yuè	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sān yuè bā hào

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	yuè	yuè	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign
3	bā	bā	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign
4	hào	hào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sān	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

bā yuè sān hào

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bā	bā	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	yuè	yuè	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bā	flat:foreign
3	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bā	flat:foreign
4	hào	hào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 bā	flat:foreign

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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