Exam question 2 · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays
It is given that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates a poet who drowned. Select the greeting consistent with this association as preferred by certain families.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Boat Festival, poet, you · What happens: give, commemorate, drown, select, prefer · To what, where: It, poet, greeting
This is exam question 2 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
Sentence 1: It is given that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates a poet who drowned.
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 commemorates | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Festival | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Boat | compound |
| 7 | Boat | Boat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Festival | compound |
| 8 | Festival | Festival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commemorates | nsubj |
| 9 | commemorates | commemorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 poet | det |
| 11 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commemorates | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 drowned | nsubj |
| 13 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poet | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | commemorate | present | the Boat Festival | a poet | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drown | past | a poet | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 greeting consistent with this association as preferred by certain families.
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 greeting | det |
| 3 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Select | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 association | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 association | det |
| 7 | association | association | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 preferred | mark |
| 9 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Select | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 families | case |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 families | amod |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 preferred | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the greeting | with this association; consistent property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | |||
| 2 | prefer | participle | you not said here | by certain families | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Duānwǔ hóngbāo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | hóngbāo | hóngbāo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Duānwǔ | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Duānwǔ fācái
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | fācái | fācái | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Duānwǔ | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Duānwǔ ānkāng
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ānkāng | compound |
| 2 | ānkāng | ānkāng | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Duānwǔ wǎn'ān
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duānwǔ | Duānwǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wǎn'ān | compound |
| 2 | wǎn'ān | wǎn'ān | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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