Exam question 1 · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

Identify the expression customarily employed to apologise for a wrong one has personally committed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, apologise, commit · To what, where: expression, wrong one

This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 apologise	mark
7	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employed	xcomp
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 committed	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 committed	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 committed	aux
13	personally	personally	ADV	_	14 committed	advmod
14	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 apologise	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	employ	past	you not said here		customarily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	apologise speech: apologize	to-infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	commit	present · perfect · passive		a wrong one	personally property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

bú kèqi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

qǐng wèn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wèn	wèn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 qǐng	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	qǐng	gerund		wèn					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

duìbuqǐ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4

méi guānxi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	méi	méi	X	_	root	root
2	guānxi	guānxi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 méi	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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