Exam question 1 · Spring Festival — Chinese New Year

Identify the Mandarin designation of the festival known in English as Chinese New Year.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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	of	of	ADP	_	7 festival	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 festival	det
7	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 festival	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 English	case
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 Year	case
12	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Year	compound
13	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Year	compound
14	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the Mandarin designation of the festival			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme
2	know	participle		the festival not said here	English	as Chinese New Year	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as year=Attribute
3	designate			the festival			nom designation «communication 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

Qīngmíng jié

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Qīngmíng	Qīngmíng	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jié	compound
2	jié	jié	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Zhōngqiū jié

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zhōngqiū	Zhōngqiū	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jié	compound
2	jié	jié	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chūnjié

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Duānwǔ jié

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Duānwǔ	Duānwǔ	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jié	compound
2	jié	jié	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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