Exam question 1 · Talking to the friend's grandparents

Identify the expression whereby a child invites an elder to commence a meal before others.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child, elder · What happens: identify, invite, commence · To what, where: expression, elder, meal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	7 invites	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invites	nsubj
7	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elder	det
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invites	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 commence	mark
11	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 invites	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 meal	det
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 commence	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 others	case
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 commence	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	invite	present	a child	a elder		whereby property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient clause=Topic
3	commence not said to happen	to-infinitive	a elder not said here	a meal	before others		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Eventuality

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

nǐ zhǎng gāo le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	zhǎng	zhǎng	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
3	gāo	gāo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat
4	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nǐ	flat:foreign

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nín xiān chī

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	3 chī	amod
2	xiān	xiān	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nín	flat
3	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

nín zuò zhèr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	zuò	zuò	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nín	flat:foreign
3	zhèr	zhèr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nín	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

hǎohāo xuéxí

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hǎohāo	hǎohāo	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	xuéxí	xuéxí	X	Foreign=Yes	1 hǎohāo	flat:foreign

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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