Exam question 1 · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

Identify the festival held fifteen days after the Chinese New Year, coinciding with the first full moon of the year.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, hold, coincide · To what, where: festival

This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and 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	3 festival	det
3	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 festival	acl
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 held	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 Year	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Year	det
9	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Year	compound
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Year	compound
11	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 coinciding	punct
13	coinciding	coincide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 moon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 moon	amod
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moon	amod
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coinciding	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 year	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moon	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the festival			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent festival=Theme
2	hold	participle		the festival not said here	after the Chinese New Year; day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	coincide	gerund	you not said here			with the first full moon of the year	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with moon=Co-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

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.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yuánxiāo jié

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yuánxiāo	Yuánxiāo	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

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 4

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.

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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