Exam question 3 · Thank you, sorry, excuse me

Ascertain the customary reply to an expression of gratitude in Mandarin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: customary reply

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reply	det
3	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reply	compound
4	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 expression	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 expression	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reply	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gratitude	case
9	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expression	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Mandarin	case
11	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gratitude	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the customary reply				to a expression of gratitude in Mandarin	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

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

máfan nǐ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	máfan	máfan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 máfan	dep

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

Option 3

jiè guò yíxià

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jiè	jiè	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	guò	guò	X	_	1 jiè	obj
3	yíxià	yíxià	X	_	2 guò	goeswith

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jiè	imperative	you not said here	guò					tree rules

Option 4

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.

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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