Exam question 1 · Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings

Identify the literal sense of the teasing term "bèndàn".

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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 sense	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 term	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
7	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	compound
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bèndàn	punct
10	bèndàn	bèndàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bèndàn	punct
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 literal sense of the teasing term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
2	sense			the teasing term					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Silly melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 melon	amod
2	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lazy, sleepy worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worm	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lazy	punct
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worm	amod
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stupid egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 egg	amod
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Small-gall ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gall	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Small	punct
3	gall	gall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ghost	compound
4	ghost	ghost	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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