Exam question 1 · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

Identify the greeting customarily addressed by a visiting child to the parents of a friend.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 greeting	det
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 addressed	advmod
5	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 greeting	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 addressed	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 parents	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parents	det
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 child	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 friend	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 friend	det
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 parents	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the greeting		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
2	address	participle		the greeting not said here	by a visiting child to the parents of a friend; customarily property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	visit	gerund				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

dǎrǎo le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dǎrǎo	dǎrǎo	X	_	2 le	compound
2	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 shūshu	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 āyí	punct
4	āyí	āyí	X	Foreign=Yes	1 shūshu	flat
5	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 shūshu	flat

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

Option 3

liú xiàlái chī fàn ba

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	liú	liú	X	Foreign=Yes	3 chī	amod
2	xiàlái	xiàlái	X	Foreign=Yes	1 liú	flat
3	chī	chī	X	_	root	root
4	fàn	fàn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ba	amod
5	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chī	flat

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

Option 4

màn zǒu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	màn	màn	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	zǒu	zǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 màn	flat

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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